I adore poet Frank O'Hara's edgy style; hence, my celebration of various verses from his
Meditations in an Emergency
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“I embraced a cloud,
but when I soared
it rained.”
but when I soared
it rained.”
― Frank O'Hara, Meditations
in an Emergency
― Frank O'Hara, Meditations
in an Emergency
“I've got to
get out of here".
"I choose
a piece of shawl and my dirtiest suntans. I'll be back, I'll re-emerge,
defeated, from the valley; you don't want me to go where you go, so I go where
you don't want me to.”
― Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an
Emergency
...“and I have mastered
the speed and strength
which is the
armor of the world.”
“In times of
crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love. And give credit where
it’s due: not to my starched nurse, who taught me how to be bad (and not bad)
rather than good , not to the Catholic Church which is at best an over-solemn
introduction to cosmic entertainment, not to the American Legion, which hates
everybody, but to you, glorious Silver Screen, tragic Technicolor, amorous
Cinemascope, stretching Vista-vision and startling Stereophonic Sound, with all
your heavenly dimensions and reverberations and iconoclasms!”
Happy 'Dog Days of summer' to all!!!
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