“But here is where the gods are, speculating, bemused.”
― Meditations in an Emergency
― Meditations in an Emergency
“He was my friend in everyday life and now I have lost his affection, which was part of my daily bread. No one will be able to give me what he has taken with him, because his active brotherly spirit was one of my life’s treasured luxuries.”
― The Complete Memoirs
― The Complete Memoirs
“I look
at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world”
― The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world”
― The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
“Grief suffocated. Grief paralysed. Grief was a cruel, heavy boot pressed so hard against his chest that he could not breathe.”
― Babel
― Babel
“oh oh god how I'd love to dream let alone
sleep
it's night
the soft air wraps me like a swarm it's raining
and I have
a cold I am a real human being with real ascendancies
and a certain amount of rapture what do you
do with a kid
like me if you don't eat me I'll have to eat myself”
― Lunch Poems
sleep
it's night
the soft air wraps me like a swarm it's raining
and I have
a cold I am a real human being with real ascendancies
and a certain amount of rapture what do you
do with a kid
like me if you don't eat me I'll have to eat myself”
― Lunch Poems
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