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" The evening light was like honey in the trees
When you left me and walked to the end of the street
Where the sunset abruptly ended.
The wedding-cake drawbridge lowered itself
To the fragile forget-me-not flower.
You climbed aboard.

Burnt horizons suddenly paved with golden stones,
Dreams I had, including suicide,
Puff out the hot-air balloon now.
It is bursting, it is about to burst "

John Ashbery


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John Ashbery quote : The evening light was like honey in the trees<br />When you left me and walked to the end of the street<br />Where the sunset abruptly ended.<br />The wedding-cake drawbridge lowered itself<br />To the fragile forget-me-not flower.<br />You climbed aboard.<br /><br />Burnt horizons suddenly paved with golden stones,<br />Dreams I had, including suicide,<br />Puff out the hot-air balloon now.<br />It is bursting, it is about to burst