Cromwell Played

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“Necessity hath no law.”
—Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)

“It has been played once more. I think you exist only
To tease me into doing it, on your level, and then you aren’t there
Or have adopted a different attitude. And the poem
Has set me softly down beside you. The poem is you.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)