Une boîte for David John

keeping an eye 

  












     I am sober and industrious
     and would be plain and plainer
     for a little while
                       until my rococo
     self is more assured of its
     distinction.
     ..

Samuel Boux, anon


Frank O'Hara
To a poet
Donald Allen, editor
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
University of California Press, 1995©