HAVING A COKE WITH YOU

is more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irun, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne
or being sick on my stomach on the Travesare de Gracia in Barcelona
partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian
partly because of my love for you, partly because of you love to yoghurt
partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches
partly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuary
it is hard to believe when I'm with you that they can be anything as still
as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it
in the warm New York 4 o'clock light we are drifting back and forth
between each other like a tree breathing through it spectacles

and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint
you suddenly wonder why in the world why anyone did them

I look
at you and I rather look at you than all the portraits in the world
except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it's in the Frick
which thank heavens you haven't gone to yet so we can go together the first time
and the fact that you move so beautifully more or less take cares of Futurism
just as at home I never think of the Nude Descending a Staircase or
at rehearsal a single drawing of Leonardo or Michelangelo that used to wow me
and what good does all the research of the Impressionist do them
when they never got the right person to stand near the tree when the sun sank
or for that matter Marino Marini when he didn't pick the rider
as carefully as the horse

is seems they were all cheated for some marvelous experience
which is not going to go wasted on me which is I'm telling you about it

-Frank O'Hara

One of my favourite poem.., what a wonderful and amazing poem by O'Hara and turn out to be it is featured in Beastly the movie. When I watched the movie last Saturday, I was like.., "Wow.., having a coke with you, that is my all time fav poem, AWESOME" :)

Enjoy the poem.., Feel it.., Cherish it.., Adore it...