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The Day Lady Died

by Frank O'Hara

It is 12:20 in New York a Friday
three days after Bastille day, yes
it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine
because I will get off the 4:19 in Easthampton
at 7:15 and then go straight to dinner
and I don't know the people who will feed me

I walk up the muggy street beginning to sun
and have a hamburger and a malted and buy
an ugly NEW WORLD WRITING to see what the poets
in Ghana are doing these days
I go on to the bank
and Miss Stillwagon (first name Linda I once heard)
doesn't even look up my balance for once in her life
and in the GOLDEN GRIFFIN I get a little Verlaine
for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do
think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or
Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Negravegres
of Genet, but I don't, I stick with Verlaine
after practically going to sleep with quandariness

and for Mike I just stroll into the PARK LANE
Liquor Store and ask for a bottle of Strega and
then I go back where I came from to 6th Avenue
and the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatre and
casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a carton
of Picayunes, and a NEW YORK POST with her face on it

and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of
leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT
while she whispered a song along the keyboard
to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing


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  Translations for this Poem
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  Poems by Frank O'Hara
  1. Frank OHara Chinamen Jump
  2. Frank OHara Poem Hate Is Only One Of Many Response
  3. Frank OHara Spleen
  4. Frank OHara Morning
  5. Frank OHara Call Me
  6. Frank OHara At Joans
  7. Frank OHara 1951
  8. Frank OHara Music
  9. Frank OHara Autobiographia Literaria
  10. Frank OHara Ave Maria
  11. Frank OHara Song Did you see me walking by the Bui
  12. Frank OHara Poem Lana Turner has collapsed
  13. Frank OHara As Planned
  14. Frank OHara Jane Awake
  15. Frank OHara Song Is it dirty
  16. Frank OHara VR Lang
  17. Frank OHara Homosexuality
  18. Frank OHara A True Account Of Talking To The Sun A
  19. Frank OHara A City Winter
  20. Frank OHara Melancholy Breakfast
  21. Frank OHara Today
  22. Frank OHara A Quiet Poem
  23. Frank OHara For Grace After A Party
  24. Frank OHara Why I Am Not A Painter
  25. Frank OHara At Night Chinamen Jump
  26. Frank OHara Poem O Solo Mio
  27. Frank OHara To The Harbormaster
  28. Frank OHara Meditations In An Emergency
  29. Frank OHara On Seeing Larry Rivers emWashington Cr
  30. Frank OHara The Day Lady Died
  31. Frank OHara Steps
  32. Frank OHara Digression On Number 1 1948
  33. Frank OHara My Heart
  34. Frank OHara Lines For The Fortune Cookies
  35. Frank OHara A Step Away From Them
  36. Frank OHara Ann Arbor Variations
 
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  Frank O'Hara 
 

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