We bought the beast called PAX at IKEA and were so foolish to believe we could assemble it by ourselves. It was a tough piece of work but in the end we succeeded without too much damage. I'm not sure if the thing will ever leave this bedroom again.
For years a secret shame destroyed my peace--
I'd not read Eliot, Auden or MacNiece.
But now I think a thought that brings me hope:
Neither had Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope. Justin Richardson.