My Heart by Frank O'Hara
I'm not going to cry all the time
nor shall I laugh all the time,
I don't prefer one "strain" to another.
I'd have the immediacy of a bad movie,
not just a sleeper, but also the big,
overproduced first-run kind. I want to be
at least as alive as the vulgar. And if
some aficionado of my mess says "That's
not like Frank!", all to the good! I
don't wear brown and grey suits all the time,
do I? No. I wear workshirts to the opera,
often. I want my feet to be bare,
I want my face to be shaven, and my heart—
you can't plan on the heart, but
the better part of it, my poetry, is open.
~ From all of Frank O'Hara's poems, this is the one that I love the most. He seems to have written anything that came in his mind without any hesitation and I really admire his courage. I love every bit of this poem from the very beginning till the end and I understand and feel it. He has great instincts and he is a hell of an inspiration for anyone. All of the sentences in this poem have a sublime message. The first two sentences "I am not goint to cry all the time, nor shall I laugh all the time" reminds me of Socrates: "Rembember always, that everything is ephemeral(temporary); then you will not be very happy at happiness and not too sad at suffering."
not just a sleeper, but also the big,
overproduced first-run kind. I want to be
at least as alive as the vulgar. And if
some aficionado of my mess says "That's
not like Frank!", all to the good! I
don't wear brown and grey suits all the time,
do I? No. I wear workshirts to the opera,
often. I want my feet to be bare,
I want my face to be shaven, and my heart—
you can't plan on the heart, but
the better part of it, my poetry, is open.
~ From all of Frank O'Hara's poems, this is the one that I love the most. He seems to have written anything that came in his mind without any hesitation and I really admire his courage. I love every bit of this poem from the very beginning till the end and I understand and feel it. He has great instincts and he is a hell of an inspiration for anyone. All of the sentences in this poem have a sublime message. The first two sentences "I am not goint to cry all the time, nor shall I laugh all the time" reminds me of Socrates: "Rembember always, that everything is ephemeral(temporary); then you will not be very happy at happiness and not too sad at suffering."
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