Lana Turner, collapsed
By Frank O'Hara
Lana Turner has collapsed!
I was trotting along and suddenly
it started raining and snowing
and you said it was hailing
but hailing hits you on the head
hard so it was really snowing and
raining and I was in such a hurry
to meet you but the traffic
was acting exactly like the sky
and suddenly I see a headline
LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED!
there is no snow in Hollywood
there is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up.
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sigh. tou-fuckin-che. sometimes i just want to dish it! why the checks and balances - why must i always have to take it as well?
shiiiiiit.
as always, your poems are so right when you get into the famed, cliche'd, yet oh so true "space in between the words."
thank you.
i wish i could give more to everyone in my life. to the people i care about. it's so hard for me to receive more than i give. i'm making it my mission to get ok with that. let's just hope i don't get TOO ok - what a curse to be a money-grubbing biotch without the nubile youth "goods" w/ which to back it up . . . curses . . .
honestly, i've daydreamed about pulling a watered-down version of an anna-nicole. that's as far as i've gotten. the closest thing i have to a husband right now works in a building clearly labeled "not for profit."
shame? what the fuck is that.
[Edited on May 11, 2006 5:22PM]