“It is even in
prose, I am a real poet. My poem
is finished and I haven't mentioned
orange yet It's twelve poems, I call
it oranges.”

—  Frank O'Hara

Why I Am Not a Painter (l. 24-28) (1976).

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American poet, art critic and writer 1926–1966

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