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Frank O'Hara's Poetry, by first line

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  • Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!)
    Lana Turner has collapsed!
    I was trotting along and suddenly
    17 lines
  • Digression On Number 1, 1948
    I am ill today but I am not
    too ill.  I am not ill at all.
    22 lines
  • For Grace, After A Party
    You do not always know what I am feeling.
    Last night in the warm spring air while I was
    19 lines
  • Lines For The Fortune Cookies
    I think you're wonderful and so does everyone else.
    Just as Jackie Kennedy has a baby boy, so will you--even bigger.
    29 lines, 4 comments
  • Meditations In An Emergency
    Am I to become profligate as if I were a blonde? Or religious
    as if I were French?
    60 lines
  • My Heart
    I'm not going to cry all the time
    nor shall I laugh all the time,
    15 lines
  • The Day Lady Died
    It is 12:20 in New York a Friday
    three days after Bastille day, yes
    29 lines
  • Why I Am Not A Painter
    I am not a painter, I am a poet.
    Why? I think I would rather be
    29 lines, 1 comment
  • Steps
    How funny you are today New York
    like Ginger Rogers in Swingtime
    45 lines
  • As Planned
    After the first glass of vodka
    you can accept just about anything
    14 lines, 6 comments
  • A Step Away From Them
    It's my lunch hour, so I go
    for a walk among the hum-colored
    49 lines
  • Music
    If I rest for a moment near The Equestrian
    pausing for a liver sausage sandwich in the Mayflower Shoppe,
    21 lines
  • 1951
    Alone at night
    in the wet city
    32 lines, 2 comments
  • A City Winter
    1
    I understand the boredom of the clerks
    75 lines
  • A Quiet Poem
    When music is far enough away
    the eyelid does not often move
    14 lines, 6 comments
  • Ann Arbor Variations
    1
    Wet heat drifts through the afternoon
    89 lines, 3 comments
  • At Joan's
    It is almost three
    I sit at the marble top
    17 lines, 1 comment
  • At Night Chinamen Jump
    At night Chinamen jump
    on Asia with a thump
    20 lines
  • Ave Maria
    Mothers of America
                 let your kids go to the movies
    55 lines
  • Call Me
    The eager note on my door said "Call me,"
    call when you get in!" so I quickly threw
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • Chinamen Jump
    At night Chinamen jump
    on Asia with a thump
    20 lines
  • Homosexuality
    So we are taking off our masks, are we, and keeping
    our mouths shut? as if we'd been pierced by a glance!
    22 lines
  • Jane Awake
    The opals hiding your lids
     as you sleep, as you ride ponies
    36 lines, 1 comment
  • Melancholy Breakfast
    Melancholy breakfast
    blue overhead blue underneath
    9 lines
  • Morning
    I've got to tell you
    how I love you always
    47 lines, 5 comments
  • Poem (Hate Is Only One Of Many Responses)
    Hate is only one of many responses
    true, hurt and hate go hand in hand
    20 lines, 5 comments
  • Song (Is it dirty)
    Is it dirty
    does it look dirty
    15 lines, 1 comment
  • Spleen
    I know so much
    about things, I accept
    14 lines
  • To The Harbormaster
    I wanted to be sure to reach you;
    though my ship was on the way it got caught
    17 lines
  • V.R. Lang
    You are so serious, as if
    a glacier spoke in your ear
    20 lines
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