Frank O'Hara Short Poems

Famous Short Frank O'Hara Poems. Short poetry by famous poet Frank O'Hara. A collection of the all-time best Frank O'Hara short poems

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Poem  

The clouds ache bleakly
and when they can manage it 
crush someone's head in
without a sound of anger.

This is a brutal mystery.


We meet in the streets
with our hands in our pockets
and snarl guiltily at each other
as if we had flayed a cloud
or two in our salad days.


Lots of things do blame us;
and in moments when I forget
how cruel we really should be
I often have to bite my tongue
to keep from being guilty.

Spleen  

I know so much
about things I accept
so much it's like
vomiting.
 And I am
nourished by the
shabbiness of my
knowing so much
about others and what
they do and accepting
so much that I hate
as if I didn't know
what it is to me.

And what it is to
them I know and hate.