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Frank O'Hara - Having a Coke with You

partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches
between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles


you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them


I look
and what good does all the research of the Impressionists do them
as the horse


it seems they were all cheated of some marvelous experience



Frank O´Hara reading his poem "Having a coke with you" in his flat in New York in 1966, shortly before his accidental death. Taken from - "USA: Poetry: Frank O'Hara" produced and directed by Richard Moore, for KQED and WNET. Originally aired on September 1, 1966.