Sunday, November 4, 2012

An Ode to Frank O'Hara


Please excuse me for the day 
I had two awful dreams last night
in the first I failed out of school and
a bunch of women in ball gowns were
whipping me and in the second I was
giving the eulogy at my aunt's funeral except 
she's very much alive I talked 
to her on the phone last night about 
our end of the world party last October and 
how a hurricane much like Sandy swept 
across the state this time last year and 
it must be more than just a coincidence and 
when I should've been trying to get out of the house
I was reading wikipedia articles about the solar system
and the discovery of Pluto in 1930 and
how Pluto and its biggest satellite Charon 
are tidally locked and actually revolve around each other 
and I knew it was time to go when I realized 
I was watching youtube videos of Zooey Deschanel 
on some late-night Scottish talk show
and Mary called to tell me how a girl
at a halloween party dressed up as a venus fly-trap
railed a Smartie® off of her ass last night because 
she hadn't snorted anything since 1996 and 
suddenly I see a headline 
LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED
and I'm sorry if my tone seems harsh but
who the fuck is Lana Turner?

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