upon being offered a room of my al...

upon being offered a room of my allow
the chance to take about notes,
a television/VCR unit, a certain quantity of hot chocolate,
peanut butter crackers, positive why not,
looking across the common room I'd heard that
collection of testimony--I opt for isolation--
a temporary suspension of my Mass Observation duties
and the chance to consider over my recent notes
from Rome and to lie outspread on the pallor
of the Spanish gradations and the moist brow
of Keats's have a contest to die, still palpable, almost
visible between the walls of the window of his somber compass

" a week passed and couple more days and John knew his