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A review by gaybf
Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara
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- Once I destroyed a man's idea of himself to have him.
- hands on ankles feet on wrists
naked in thought
like a whip made from sheerest stocking - Oh to be an angel (if there were any!), and go
straight up into the sky and look around and then
come down
not to be covered with steel and aluminum
glaringly ugly in the pure distances and clattering and
buckling, wheezing
but to be part of the treetops and the blueness, invisible,
the iridescent darkness beyond,
silent, listening to
the air becoming no air becoming air again - the pin-point light upon a fear of lust
- you were always there and you know all about these
things
as indifferent as an encyclopedia with your
calm brown eyes - Is this love, now that the first love
has finally died, where there were no impossibilities? - ...as I historically
belong to the enormous bliss of American death - and that's the meaning of fertility
hard and moist and moaning - saling through space: didn't I have you once for my
self?
West side?
for a couple of hours, but I am not that person - it's true that fresh air is good for the body
but what about the soul
that grows in darkness, embossed by silvery images - where are you Fanny Elssler come back!
- ...all
the postcards and the smiles and the kisses and the grunts
that was love but I kept on traveling - listening while you talk and talking while you read
I read what you read
you do not read what I read
which is right, I am the one with the curiosity
you read for some mysterious reason
I read simply because I am a writer
- you were always there and you know all about these