Today's Idea
Rummaging through some old poems for ideas -- surely I must have had some once? Some people have an idea a day, others millions, still others are condemned to spend their life inside an idea, like a bubble chamber. And these are probably the suspicious ones. Anyway, in poems are no ideas. No ideas in things, either-- her name is Wichita. --John Ashbery, from "And the Stars Were Shining"
