For the most dissonant night charms us, even after death. This,
after all, may be happiness: tuba notes awash on the great flood,
ruptures of xylophone, violins, limpets, grace-notes, the musical
instrument called serpent, viola da gambas, aeolian harps,
clavicles, pinball machines, electric drills, que saisje encore!
"Rivers and Mountains," John Ashbery
[Chicago Avenue at Damen Avenue]
