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I understand the boredom of the clerks	B
fatigue shifting like dunes within their eyes	C
a frightful nausea gumming up the works	B
that once was thought aggression in disguise	C
Do you remember then how lightly dead	D
seemed the moon when over factories	E
it languid slid like a barrage of lead	D
above the heart the fierce inventories	E
of desire Now women wander our dreams	F
carrying money and to our sleep's shame	G
our hands twitch not for swift blood sunk triremes	F
nor languorous white horses nor ill fame	G
but clutch the groin that clouds a pallid sky	H
where tow'rs are sinking in their common eye	H
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My ship is flung upon the gutter's wrist	I
and cries for help of storm to violate	J
that flesh your curiosity too late	J
has flushed The stem your garter tongue would twist	I
has sunk upon the waveless bosom's mist	I
thigh of the city apparition hate	J
and the tower whose doves have delicate	K
fled into my blood where they are not kissed	I
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You have left me to the sewer's meanwhile	L
and I have answered the sea's open wish	M
to love me as a bonfire's watchful hand	N
guards red the shore and guards the hairy strand	N
our most elegant lascivious bile	L
my ship sinking beneath the gutter's fish	M
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How can I then my dearest winter lay	O
disgorge the tasty worm that eats me up	P
falling onto the stem of a highway	O
whose ardent rainbow is the spoon's flat cup	P
and in the vilest of blue suited force	Q
enamored of the heated needle's arm	R
finds the ministrant an own tongue's remorse	Q
so near the blood and still so far from harm	R
thus to be eaten up and gobbled down	S
volcanoes of speedometers the strike	T
that heats the iris into flame and flow'rs	Q
the panting chalice so a turning pike	T
you are not how the gods refused to die	H
and I am scarred forever neath the eye	H
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What are my eyes if they must feed me rank	U
with forgetting in the jealous forest	V
of lustrous blows so luminously blank	U
through smoke and in the light All faint at rest	W
yet I am racing towards the fear that kills	Q
them off friends and lovers hast'ning through tears	Q
like alcohol high in the throat of hills	Q
and hills of night alluring their black cheers	Q
falling upon my ears like nails And there	X
the bars grow thick with onanists and camps	Q
and bivouacs of bears with clubs are fair	X
with their blows deal death beneath purple lamps	Q
and to me I run closer always move	Y
crying my name in fields of dead I love	Z
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I plunge deep within this frozen lake	A2
whose mirrored fastnesses fill up my heart	B2
where tears drift from frivolity to art	B2
all white and slobbering and by mistake	A2
are the sky I'm no whale to cruise apart	B2
in fields impassive of my stench my sake	A2
my sign to crushing seas that fall like fake	A2
pillars to crash to sow as wake my heart	B2
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and don't be niggardly The snow drifts low	C2
and yet neglects to cover me and I	H
dance just ahead to keep my heart in sight	D2
How like a queen to seek with jealous eye	H
the face that flees you hidden city white	D2
swan There's no art to free me blinded so	C2

Frank O'hara

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