Frank O’Hara - “Having a Coke with You”
As Brian reminded us a while back, the title of Frank O’Hara’s book, Lunch Poems, came from the fact that he wrote much of his wonderful, breezy verse while on his lunch break while working at MoMA.
Like William Carlos Williams, Richard Hugo, and countless other of my favorite poets, some of O’Hara’s finest work was written when such writing was not his job.
Full text: Having a Coke with You by Frank O’Hara : Poetry Foundation
