Thursday, September 19, 2013

Ice Cream Wars by John Ashbery

By the title alone, I thought, man! This poem's going to be great!

A quick read-through reveals that it's about something far deeper than ice cream (actually, I'm not even sure I got that there's any reference to ice cream at all...).

And here I thought it was literally about a war with ice cream (Ice cream cannons? Sticky stains of melted sugary goodness instead of blood? All wars should be fought like this!).

Oh well.

For those that are interested, the poem is here.

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