They have comfortable chairs in Barnes and Noble.

George Bowering is Canada's first poet laureate and the author of over 80 books. A native of British Columbia, he has worked as a professor, editor and writer. Bowering is a member of the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honor. - Reuters/Corbis

His Web-Page - http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/bowering/index.htm

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in his poem "Nature," compares the old to a child who must "leave his broken playthings on the floor" and go to bed:

So Nature deals with us, and takes away
Our playthings one by one, and by the hand
Leads us to rest so gently, that we go
Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay,
Being too full of sleep to understand
How far the unknown transcends the what we know.

An 80-Year-Old Poet for the MTV Generation

"It is John Ashbery, the prolific 80-year-old poet and frequent award winner known for his dense, postmodern style and playful language. One of the most celebrated living poets, Mr. Ashbery has won MacArthur Foundation and Guggenheim fellowships and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.”

more at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/books/27laur.html?_r=1&8bu&emc=bu&oref=slogin

My Philosophy of Life, by John Ashbery: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15460

Bumping Poets Corner!

Nice move cricket!

I

Just a line or few
not looking for perfection -
something to do
a jackson polloc abstraction
maybe

II

an event of intro - spection
a roarrrrsach
for de - tection
a splotch
of rhymes

III

automatic writing poetic
resounding chimes
noetic
maybe at times
revealing

IV

whats in the soul
sounding
making whole -
untangling -
what-knot

V

who knows? there's hope!
haven't got
nuthin yet nope -
now -
the line is tugging tight

VI

Wow
reel it in
feel the swerve
and thrash left n' right
ooups.

VII

lost it.

- dAb