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Frank O'Hara

Frank O'Hara

Autobiographia Literaria

When I was a child
I played by myself in a
corner of the schoolyard
all alone.
 
I hated dolls and I
hated games, animals were
not friendly and birds
flew away.
 
If anyone was looking
for me I hid behind a
tree and cried out “I am
an orphan.”
 
And here I am, the
center of all beauty!
writing these poems!
Imagine!

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Altre opere di Frank O'Hara...
The Day Lady Died

It is 12:20 in New York a Friday three days after Bastille day, yes it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshin… because I will get off the 4:19 in… at 7:15 and then go straight to di…
Melancholy Breakfast

Melancholy breakfast blue overhead blue underneath the silent egg thinks and the toaster’s electrical ear waits
To the Harbormaster

I wanted to be sure to reach you; though my ship was on the way it g… in some moorings. I am always tyin… and then deciding to depart. In st… at sunset, with the metallic coils…
A City Winter

I understand the boredom of the cl… fatigue shifting like dunes within… a frightful nausea gumming up the… that once was thought aggression i… Do you remember? then how lightly…
 1
Homosexuality

So we are taking off our masks, ar… our mouths shut? as if we’d been p… The song of an old cow is not more… than the vapors which escape one’s… so I pull the shadows around me li…
A Quiet Poem

When music is far enough away the eyelid does not often move and objects are still as lavender without breath or distant rejoinde… The cloud is then so subtly dragge…
Mayakovsky

My heart’s aflutter! I am standing in the bath tub crying. Mother, mother who am I? If he will just come back once
 1
In Memory of my Feelings

My quietness has a man in it, he i… and he carries me quietly, like a… He has several likenesses, like st… My quietness has a number of naked… so many pistols I have borrowed to…
Song

Did you see me walking by the Bui… I was thinking of you having a Coke in the heat it was y… I saw on the movie magazine, no it… I was thinking of you
 1
A Step Away From Them

It’s my lunch hour, so I go for a walk among the hum-colored cabs. First, down the sidewalk where laborers feed their dirty glistening torsos sandwiches
Spleen

I know so much about things, I accept so much, it’s like vomiting. And I am nourished by the
As Planned

After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousne… you think it is nice that a box of matches is purple and brown and…
 1
At Night Chinamen Jump

At night Chinamen jump on Asia with a thump while in our willful way we, in secret, play affectionate games and bruise
Chinamen Jump

At night Chinamen jump on Asia with a thump while in our willful way we, in secret, play affectionate games and bruise
Animals

Have you forgotten what we were li… when we were still first rate and the day came fat with an apple… it’s no use worrying about Time but we did have a few tricks up ou…



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