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Turning from the blaze to the counterpanel // I saw how we are all great in our shortcomings, yea // greater because of them. There are letters in the alphabet // we don't know yet, but when we've remembered them // we'll know the luster of unsupported things. // Our negativity will have caught up with us // and we'll be better for it. Just // keep turning on lights, wasting electricity, // carousing with aardvarks, smashing the stemware. // These apartments we live in are nicer // than where we lived before, near the beginning. //

  -- John Ashbery, "When I Saw the Invidious Flare"