Frank O'Hara

Poems are meditations in emergency. What is the emergency? The emergency is that you're living your life and want to capture it at the same time.

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detangle and dance through the labyrinth

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the beauty you've seen is the beauty you've been

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a fading rose in an exquisitely detailed dress waiting to see what might happen

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"from the unreal lead me to the real!"

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"drain whatever absess is in your heart"

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already am
always was
and i still have time to be

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the buildings of new york are frozen grass and we are hares, trembling trembling through @HartCrane

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maybe one day ill find a bus ride and leave behind the east side.

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and the cold begins

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the blackout goes on and on and on

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Tell me as the world gets cold, if it's green in the unknown.

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nothing says fall like a pumpkin spice latte.

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"we're vodka quiet"

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The greater the truth the greater the joy

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Thank god for museums. and the whispered analysis and the still life smiles.

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picasso smilie face.

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In the room the women come and go. Talking of Michelangelo.

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Forward march.

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Smoke doesn't explode. Something explodes that causes smoke. Careful with your passive voice. Hangman and slant rhymes.

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We cling to our props. Let's freeze the Prologue.