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  • My Heart
    I'm not going to cry all the time
    nor shall I laugh all the time,
    I don't prefer one "strain" to another.
    I'd have the immediacy of a bad movie,...
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Heart 1 Poetry 1 Time 1 Good 1 Brown 1 Face 1 Laugh 1 Prefer 1 Open 1 Plan 1


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Sukhi4all: this poem will always stay close to my heart. thank you. and happy birthday frank o' hara
Artforum: “the demands of poetry and painting, of expressivity and formalism, collided in his work and would come to no easy resolution,” wrote barrett watten of frank o’hara in artforum’s march 2008 issue.
Robertallenpoet: great poem and it's even better when he reads it frank o´hara reads "having a coke with you"
Peelijay: frank o hara to lawrence, publisher of lunch poems!
J3mm4_vzq: "and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them i look at you and i would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world" ~frank o' hara, to vincent warren
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Heart to heart!
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