High School Jock Strap Wrestling

made me think and that's it, D-

Now I am quietly waiting

the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.


The campaign is gray and brown and there is white on the trees,
the snow and the sky
laughing less and less and less fun
not just darker, not just gray.

could be the coldest day of the year
,
what he thinks of this? that is, what I think? And when I think, perhaps
I'm myself again.

Frank O'Hara, "Mayakovsky" from "Meditations in an Emergency", 1957 (via )