Breezeway by John Ashbery

Breezeway

Someone said we needed a breezeway

to bark down remnants of super storm Elias jugularly.

Alas it wasn’t my call.

I didn’t have a call or anything resembling one.

You see I have always been a rather dull-spirited winch.

The days go by and I go with them.

A breeze falls from a nearby tower,

finds no breezeway, goes away

along a mission to supersize red shutters.

Alas if that were only all.

There’s the children’s belongings to be looked to

if only one can find the direction needed

and stuff like that.

I said we were all homers not homos

but my voice dwindled in the roar of Hurricane Edsel.

We have to live out our precise experimentation.

Otherwise there’s no dying for anybody,

no crisp rewards.

Batman came out and clubbed me.

He never did get along with my view of the universe

except you know existential threads

from the time of the peace beaters and more.

He patted his dog Pastor Fido.

There was still so much to be learned

and even more to be researched.

It was like a goodbye. Why not accept it,

anyhow? The mission girls came through the woods

in their special suitings. It was all whipped cream and baklava.

Is there a Batman somewhere, who notices us

and promptly looks away, at a new catalog, say,

or another racing car expletive

coming back at Him?