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Dani André Valerius Millar is an Irish poet, novelist and photographer. His poetry covers many topics, such as teenage angst, love, city life and the search of identity. He has called himself “a gay, edgy T.S Eliot, ” He cites the poets, T.S Eliot and Frank O’Hara, the writers James Joyce, Jean-Paul Sartre and Georges Perec as his main influences. Millar thinks of himself as a literary iconoclast, saying “I am the death and rebirth of literature itself.” He gave himself the middle name ‘Valerius’ after the Ancient Roman poet of the same name. He is currently working on his first novel, which is currently untitled. It aims to be “the 21st century Ulysses but with lots of internet culture, teenage angst and A LOT of satire.” He has a boyfriend named Devin.)

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My Love For Neon Lights

To Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)

The blues buzz and the reds rumble,
the yellows yell and the greens growl.
The morning sky shines like a leviathan lemon.
Diner signs screech like spectres in a spectrum,
as their rainbows roar, delivering their mundane message
of cheeseburgers and chocolate milkshakes.
These solitary signs scribble and sing
odes to fried fish and French fries and hymns
to castles of casinos. Pinks pule elegies of
women who sold their expensive bodies for
a handful of dollars, who will never regain
their childlike innocence again.
I'll stare at these sonneteer signs
just like how O'Hara did. I'll scroll these streets
for him,
just like he did, for me.

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