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Lunch Poems by Frank O’Hara

ON THE WAY TO SAN REMO

The black ghinkos snarl their way up the moon growls at each blinking window the apartment houses climb deafeningly into the purple

A bat hisses northwards the perilous steps lead to a grate suddenly the heat is bearable

The cross-eyed dog scratches a worn patch of pavement his right front leg is maimed in the shape of a V there's no trace of his nails on the street a woman cajoles

She is very old and dirty she whistles her filthy hope that it will rain tonight

The 6th Avenue bus trunk-lumbers sideways it is full of fat people who cough as at a movie they eat each other's dandruff in the flickering glare

The moon passes into clouds so hurt by the street lights of your glance oh my heart

The act of love is also passing like a subway bison through the paper-littered arches of the express tracks the sailor sobers he feeds pennies to the peanut machines

Though others are in the night far away lips upon a dusty armpit the nostrils are full of tears

High fidelity reposed in a box a hand on the windowpane the sweet calm the violin strings tie a young man's hair the bright black eyes pin far away their smudged curiosity

Yes you are foolish smoking the bars are for rabbits who wish to outlive the men

1954

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AVE MARIA

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 it's true that fresh air is good for the body but what about the soul that grows in darkness, embossed by silvery images and when you grow old as grow old you must they won't hate you they won't criticize you they won't know they'll be in some glamorous country they first saw on a Saturday afternoon or playing hookey

they may even be grateful to you for their first sexual experience which only cost you a quarter and didn't upset the peaceful home they will know where candy bars come from and gratuitous bags of popcorn as gratuitous as leaving the movie before it's over with a pleasant stranger whose apartment is in the Heaven on Earth Bldg near the Williamsburg Bridge oh mothers you will have made the little tykes so happy because if nobody does pick them up in the movies they won't know the difference and if somebody does it'll be sheer gravy and they'll have been truly entertained either way instead of hanging around the yard or up in their room hating you

prematurely since you won't have done anything horribly mean yet except keeping them from the darker joys it's unforgivable the latter so don't blame me if you won't take this advice and the family breaks up and your children grow old and blind in front of a TV set seeing movies you wouldn't let them see when they were young

1960

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STEPS

How funny you are today New York like Ginger Rogers in Swingtime and St. Bridget's steeple leaning a little to the left

here I have just jumped out of a bed full of V-days (I got tired of D-days) and blue you there still accepts me foolish and free all I want is a room up there and you in it and even the traffic halt so thick is a way for people to rub up against each other and when their surgical appliances lock they stay together for the rest of the day (what a day) I go by to check a slide and I say that painting's not so blue

where's Lana Turner she's out eating and Garbo's backstage at the Met everyone's taking their coat off so they can show a rib-cage to the rib-watchers and the park's full of dancers and their tights and shoes in little bags who are often mistaken for worker-outers at the West Side Y why not the Pittsburgh Pirates shout because they won and in a sense we're all winning we're alive

the apartment was vacated by a gay couple who moved to the country for fun they moved a day too soon even the stabbings are helping the population explosion though in the wrong country and all those liars have left the UN the Seagram Building's no longer rivalled in interest not that we need liquor (we just like it)

and the little box is out on the sidewalk next to the delicatessen so the old man can sit on it and drink beer and get knocked off it by his wife later in the day while the sun is still shining

oh god it's wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much

1961

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FOR THE CHINESE NEW YEAR & FOR BILL BERKSON (excerpt)

don't touch me because when I tremble it makes a noise

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POEM

Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really snowing and raining and I was in such a hurry to meet you but the traffic was acting exactly like the sky and suddenly I see a headline LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED! there is no snow in Hollywood there is no rain in California I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up

1962

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