Hearing from you is more fun that going to San Sebastian, LA, New York, Biarritz, Bayonne, Paris—or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Garcia in Barcelona
Partly because of your silly innocence, you look like a crazier, happier St. Therese.
Partly because of my love for you
Partly because of your love for cookies
Partly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuary
In the warm New York four o’clock light
We are drifting back and forth
I look at you and I would rather look at you than at other portraits in the world
Except possible 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 takes care of futurism
It seems so many were cheated of some marvelous experience
Which is not going to go wasted on me
Hearing from you is more fun that going to San Sebastian, LA, New York, Biarritz, Bayonne, Paris—or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Garcia in Barcelona Partly because of your silly innocence, you look like a crazier, happier St. Therese. Partly because of my love for you Partly because of your love for cookies Partly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuary
In the warm New York four o’clock light We are drifting back and forth I look at you and I would rather look at you than at other portraits in the world Except possible 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 takes care of futurism
It seems so many were cheated of some marvelous experience Which is not going to go wasted on me
Frank O’Hara [paraphrased]