Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara

Author:Frank O'Hara [O'Hara, Frank]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Poetry
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 1963-12-31T23:00:00+00:00

A LITTLE TRAVEL DIARY

Wending our way through the gambas, angulas, the merluzas that taste like the Sea Post on Sunday and the great quantities of huevos they take off Spanish Naval officers' uniforms and put on plates, and reach the gare de Francia in the gloaming with my ton of books and John's ton of clothes bought in a wild fit of enthusiasm in Madrid; all jumbled together like life is a Jumble Shop

of the theatre in Spain they said nothing for foreigners and we head in our lovely 1st class coach, shifting and sagging, towards the northwest, while in other compartments Dietrich and Erich von Stroheim share a sandwich of chorizos and a bottle of Vichy Catalan, in the dining car the travelling gentleman with linear mustache and many many rings rolls his cigar around and drinks Martini y ginebra, and Lillian Gish rolls on over the gorges with a tear in her left front eye, comme Picasso, through the night through the night, longitudinous and affected with stars; the riverbeds so far below look as a pig's tongue on a platter, and storms break over San Sebastian, 40 foot waves drench us pleasantly and we see a dead dog bloated as a fraise lolling beside the quai and slowly pulling out to sea

to Irun and Biarritz we go, sapped of anxiety, and there for the first time since arriving in Barcelona I can freely shit and the surf is so high and the sun is so hot and it was all built yesterday as everything should be

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