The historian’s opinion is that this decade is the most decadent so far.What we consume’s not meant to be consumed.It’s meant to be looked at.“That anyone should have to die” for us, but the sentiment left incomplete.“Frank O’Hara’s poetry has no program and therefore cannot be joined.”To ignore the establishment’s right to exist.To ignore the rules of poetry.No message beyond “this is me and I’m poetry.”Because poetry by itself is never enough—“a dish without a sauce,” critique of poetry society’swishes. “Not just Breton’s rodomontades.”Being asked to explain a poem is like being asked to explain an explanation.“The Stein-Toklas salon was a coven of Satanist Bolsheviks.”Ashbery’s view that giving poetry readings was a fad.Writing for the drawer.Structured awkwardness.Whoever said that probably didn’t have a cake that killed people.