It is easy to be
beautiful; it is
difficult to ap-
pear so..
It's like a fi-
nal chapter no
one reads be-
cause the plot
is over.
It's only afternoon,
there's a lot ahead.
There won't be any
mail downstairs.
Turning, I spit in
the lock and the
knob turns.
Frank O'Hara
Meditations in an
Emergency
[fragments]
June 25, 1954
Poetry
November, 1954
Donald Allen
editor
Joel Meyerowitz
Provincetown
1977
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