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"I look
up. "You have sardines in it."
"Yes, it needed something there."
"Oh.""
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. Why I Am Not a Painter (l. 7-10). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press. |
"It is even in
prose, I am a real poet. My poem
is finished and I haven't mentioned
orange yet It's twelve poems, I call
it oranges."
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. Why I Am Not a Painter (l. 24-28). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press. |
"And one has eaten and one walks,
past the magazines with nudes
and the posters for bullfight and
the Manhattan Storage Warehouse,
which they'll soon tear down."
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. A Step Away from Them (l. 40-44). . .
Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"A glass of papaya juice
and back to work. My heart is in my
pocket, it is Poems by Pierre Reverdy."
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. A Step Away from Them (l. 47-49). . .
Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"down the sidewalk
where laborers feed their dirty
glistening torsos sandwiches
and Coca-Cola, with yellow helmets
on. They protect them from falling
bricks, I guess."
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. A Step Away from Them (l. 3-8). . .
Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"Go back to sleep now
Frank, and I may leave a tiny poem
in that brain of yours as my farewell.'"
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island (l. 73-75). . .
Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry, The. Helen Vendler, ed. (1985) The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. |
"If you don't appear
at all one day they think you're lazy
or dead."
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island (l. 42-44). . .
Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry, The. Helen Vendler, ed. (1985) The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. |
"And
always embrace things, people earth
sky stars, as I do, freely and with
the appropriate sense of space."
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island (l. 64-67). . .
Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry, The. Helen Vendler, ed. (1985) The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. |
"'No, go I must, they're calling
me.'
'Who are they?'
Rising he said "Some
day you'll know. They're calling to you
too.' Darkly he rose, and then I slept."
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island (l. 77-82). . .
Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry, The. Helen Vendler, ed. (1985) The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. |
"And don't worry about your lineage
poetic or natural."
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island (l. 45-46). . .
Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry, The. Helen Vendler, ed. (1985) The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. |
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