Frank O'Hara - Lunch Poems (1964)

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LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED! there is no snow in Hollywood there is no rain in California I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up

Frank O'Hara

But it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it...

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It is 12:20 in New York a Friday
three days after Bastille Day, yes
it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine
because I will get off the 4:19 in Easthampton
at 7:15 and then go straight to dinner
and I don't know the people who will feed me

Frank O'Hara

Oh god it's wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much

Frank O'Hara