Of heroes on their weekend

  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 . .

        

Frank O'Hara

Having a Coke

  with You

  [fragment]

1960

Donald Allen

  editor

The Collected Poems

  of Frank O'Hara

op. cit.