What is the main conflict in Paradoxes and Oxymorons by John Ashbery?

Typical of many of Ashbery's poems, and of much post-modern verse, it directs readers' attention to the words themselves, placing the language's materiality and the process of meaning making in the foreground. The poem, its speaker, and its readers all take part in this process. Paradoxes are statements that contain often inexplicable or contradictory elements that nonetheless may still be true in some way.