Other Furniture
Be on that sofa.
—John Ashbery
Books can be furniture, too.
And sofas past. My house
holds, when holding sofas
in their midst (be they some
where to the side or, once
in a while, smack in the middle,
almost as if to separate, part
icularly in studio apartments),
well, that piece of furniture
would come to know the
frenzied heat of love that
would not make it to a bed.
The bed would know similar
things, too. But the sofa....
