When I am king you will be first against the wall
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
ANIMALS
Have you forgotten what we were like then
when we were still first rate
and the day came fat with an apple in its mouthit's no use worrying about Time
but we did have a few tricks up our sleeves
and turned some sharp cornersthe whole pasture looked like our meal
we didn't need speedometers
we could manage cocktails out of ice and waterI wouldn't want to be faster
or greener than now if you were with me O you
were the best of all my days
From The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara. Copyright © 1971 by Maureen Granville-Smith. All rights reserved.