Frank O’Hara
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Snorting a Lexapro With You
Fucking at the Zoo rich fucks poor schmucks grey donkeys pink goatsloser communist cattle roaming cocks black pig gnaws vestigial arm of long-deadstump pink pig dreams of shit in dry sun all pant in red heat zoo as palaceof great social inequity lonesome horse shreds grass beside canada goose both childrenenamored in their wielding large…
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On One Leg (House Beautiful)
prokofiev cobham & darnielle circle one’scrown blue llama equilateral wingedwhat have we hereseen? a photo in a photo in a magazinemetaphor boils the potafter a jot spills its ink hungover an fim-92 stinger whichlike i said before is no metaphorat all al gore despondent speaking to late modal fordsdon’t forget mass production the cruelest bearda…
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200! (Dog Talk)
200! the old mutt sayshallelujah and forevermorethe rats of uskeep banging on that drumif the sky has his wayif the shy sky has his wayfrank o’hara blessed meearly in my career — he blurbedmy christening i’ll pray for yousays the well intentioned divorceereally where would we be without softscrub the bathroom would be the barnno…
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Acusar al Presidente
yes 10:13 in hackensack and i am wonderingwhy on earth is my skin so skinny when all the prayers say i should be greasymy benedictions should be known widelyhow many people are even in this bolted down town anyway if i stop with all the bolas de acerocerveza and el gran poeta contemporáneo maybe i’ll…
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Sweat Sweet as Melons the Tongues
one hands grasping the ornamental knobs of the man-ropes father mapple cast a look this color orange tries to remind me of you lay down and be slumbering a cabinet is kind the and when i’m cornered at the final blown it seems from room in clouds peeks at ourselves in the mirror brain inside…
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Bernadette
I sit in bed beside you, shearing, Heating pad set to medium; You say I couldn’t handle more. You’re looking for work. I’m reading about poets in Monochrome. Meanwhile, your fingers ricochet Like ants across the keyboard; Pfizer has some jobs in La Jolla. I don’t want to reach over and fuck you Nor…
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Shiva-Ogawa
the most interesting thing about the spraying from a big industrial gun it gives you a new body amodal completion it’s very rare that you read something profound and fundamental on color più grande it’s a report on how things are today how are things? they are afraid of the violence within themselves for instance…
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“be frank (if you can’t be frank, be john and kenneth).”
From “The Last Avant-Garde” by David Lehman: [Frank] O’Hara’s ironically self-deprecating tone was much imitated. “I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love,” he wrote. He kiddingly called his own poems “the by-product of exhibitionism” and wrote constantly about his daily life. It was O’Hara who initiated the policy of…
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Poem
now outside are scary things out there children play other bells ring out then cease with mouths and thin skin everything with clout is immediate and blood waits for a bout below layers of paper my dog watches a goldfinch with her nose she cries and whines complains or does not understand the screen a hinge…
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