Frank O'Hara Poems

I think you're wonderful and so does everyone else.

Just as Jackie Kennedy has a baby boy, so will you--even bigger.
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The Sun woke me this morning loud
and clear, saying "Hey! I've been
trying to wake you up for fifteen
minutes. Don't be so rude, you are
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You do not always know what I am feeling.
Last night in the warm spring air while I was
blazing my tirade against someone who doesn't
interest
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After the first glass of vodka
you can accept just about anything
of life even your own mysteriousness
you think it is nice that a box
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I understand the boredom of the clerks
fatigue shifting like dunes within their eyes
a frightful nausea gumming up the works
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Mothers of America
let your kids go to the movies
get them out of the house so they won't
know what you're up to
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I am ill today but I am not
too ill. I am not ill at all.
It is a perfect day, warm
for winter, cold for fall.
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Melancholy breakfast
blue overhead blue underneath

the silent egg thinks
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The eager note on my door said "Call me,"
call when you get in!" so I quickly threw
a few tangerines into my overnight bag,
straightened my eyelids and shoulders, and
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is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne
or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona
partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian
partly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurt
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