- naptalan
- Feb 18, 2009
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I see that some Frank O'Hara poems have already been posted, but here's one of my favourites as read by O'Hara himself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDLwivcpFe8
quote:Having a Coke with You
is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne
or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera 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 your love for 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 there 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 its spectacles
and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint
you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them
I look
at you and I would 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 takes care of Futurism
just as at home I never think of the Nude Descending a Staircase or
at a rehearsal a single drawing of Leonardo or Michelangelo that used to wow me
and what good does all the research of the Impressionists 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
it seems they were all cheated of some marvelous experience
which is not going to go wasted on me which is why I am telling you about it
Another favourite of mine: Robert Graves - Counting the Beats
quote:You, love, and I,
(He whispers) you and I,
And if no more than only you and I
What care you or I ?
Counting the beats,
Counting the slow heart beats,
The bleeding to death of time in slow heart beats,
Wakeful they lie.
Cloudless day,
Night, and a cloudless day,
Yet the huge storm will burst upon their heads one day
From a bitter sky.
Where shall we be,
(She whispers) where shall we be,
When death strikes home, O where then shall we be
Who were you and I ?
Not there but here,
(He whispers) only here,
As we are, here, together, now and here,
Always you and I.
Counting the beats,
Counting the slow heart beats,
The bleeding to death of time in slow heart beats,
Wakeful they lie.
And one more for good measure! John Darnielle - sacred worlds
quote:the choruses on the new blind guardian album
are stacked several dozen voices high
not crazy sevenths & thirteenths brian wilson style
but minor chords and towering fifths
like enormous crystal sculptures
in far-flung fields
where the wind blows
and the rain turns to ice
and the traveler squints
but continues on
the solos meanwhile on the new blind guardian album
are cleaner than ferraris
yes
the singer still sounds like he's afraid of a monster
and yes
his subject matter still comes
from science fiction and fantasy books
and there's a dragon on the album cover
and then what's more get this
this dragon, flanked by two dudes with axes,
is emerging from a loving pyramid
you've seen that bumper sticker,
"real men worship jesus"
go ahead
keep telling
yourself
that
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