Showing posts with label Frank O'Hara. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frank O'Hara. Show all posts

Saturday, August 29, 2026

Lunch Poems and an Olivetti - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

Dispatches for the Colonial Office

LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love

Home - Hello Poetry

 

Lunch Poems and an Olivetti

 

oz.Typewriter: Poet Frank O'Hara and the Olivetti Lettera 22 Portable Typewriter

 

When Frank O’Hara poemed on an Olivetti

At a typewriter shop on Fifth Avenue

He pulled out a sheet of paper which did not read

Error 1101 Ray ID: a324930b6bd1e5a5 • 2026-08-28 16:08:24 UTC

Worker threw exception

Lunch Poems and a Subaru - Poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

Dispatches for the Colonial Office

LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love

Home - Hello Poetry

 

Lunch Poems and a Subaru

 

 

“The world is full of people who want to tell you how to live…”

 

-attributed to Gus in Lonesome Dove

 

 

When I picked up a copy of Lunch Poems

I didn’t know I was required to be gay

And when I bought a fine new Subaru

I didn’t know I was required to be

          a feminist lesbian professor with big round glasses                              and short grey hair

Exit the Hurricane, 2017 - poem

  Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com a re-post from 2017 Exit the Hurricane 2017 (not the catchiest title, eh?) What is that silence? It...