Frank O'Hara Poems

I think you're wonderful and so does everyone else.

Just as Jackie Kennedy has a baby boy, so will you--even bigger.
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The Sun woke me this morning loud
and clear, saying "Hey! I've been
trying to wake you up for fifteen
minutes. Don't be so rude, you are
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You do not always know what I am feeling.
Last night in the warm spring air while I was
blazing my tirade against someone who doesn't
interest
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After the first glass of vodka
you can accept just about anything
of life even your own mysteriousness
you think it is nice that a box
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I understand the boredom of the clerks
fatigue shifting like dunes within their eyes
a frightful nausea gumming up the works
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Wet heat drifts through the afternoon
like a campus dog, a fraternity ghost
waiting to stay home from football games.
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Mothers of America
let your kids go to the movies
get them out of the house so they won't
know what you're up to
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I am ill today but I am not
too ill. I am not ill at all.
It is a perfect day, warm
for winter, cold for fall.
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Melancholy breakfast
blue overhead blue underneath

the silent egg thinks
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The eager note on my door said "Call me,"
call when you get in!" so I quickly threw
a few tangerines into my overnight bag,
straightened my eyelids and shoulders, and
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