Frank O'Hara - Lines For The Fortune Cookies

[angabel.livejournal.com]

Lines For The Fortune Cookies

I think you're wonderful and so does everyone else.

Just as Jackie Kennedy has a baby boy, so will you--even bigger.

You will meet a tall beautiful blonde stranger, and you will not say hello.

You will take a long trip and you will be very happy, though alone.

You will marry the first person who tells you your eyes are like scrambled eggs.

In the beginning there was YOU--there will always be YOU, I guess.

You will write a great play and it will run for three performances.

Please phone The Village Voice immediately: they want to interview you.

Roger L. Stevens and Kermit Bloomgarden have their eyes on you.

Relax a little; one of your most celebrated nervous tics will be your undoing.

Your first volume of poetry will be published as soon as you finish it.

You may be a hit uptown, but downtown you're legendary!

Your walk has a musical quality which will bring you fame and fortune.

You will eat cake.

Who do you think you are, anyway? Jo Van Fleet?

You think your life is like Pirandello, but it's really like O'Neill.

A few dance lessons with James Waring and who knows? Maybe something will happen.

That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.

I realize you've lived in France, but that doesn't mean you know EVERYTHING!

You should wear white more often--it becomes you.

The next person to speak to you will have a very intriquing proposal to make.

A lot of people in this room wish they were you.

Have you been to Mike Goldberg's show? Al Leslie's? Lee Krasner's?

At times, your disinterestedness may seem insincere, to strangers.

Now that the election's over, what are you going to do with yourself?

You are a prisoner in a croissant factory and you love it.

You eat meat. Why do you eat meat?

Beyond the horizon there is a vale of gloom.

You too could be Premier of France, if only ... if only...

-Frank O'Hara



I left a message on silverflurry's livejournal but it seems like he/she has been taking a leave of livejournal. Is there another mod for this community? Does this community even have a mod currently?

Comments

Re: Speaking as a mod...

[coyotecult.livejournal.com]

By default, members who aren't mods can only use tags that are predefined and existing. That might help or hinder this idea.

Re: Speaking as a mod...

[angabel.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't that help? Then they set the way the tags read, if it's just the last name of the author or what.

-Ang

Re: Speaking as a mod...

[coyotecult.livejournal.com]

Definitely, but there are SO MANY POETS! So if someone posted a new poet who didn't have a tag yet, a mod would have to make a new tag for them. Not too horrible a fate, although they might need another mod or two if the load was too much.

I guess we could help and come up with a list of all the poets to be posted in the past couple months?

--Coyote

Re: Speaking as a mod...

[3g0.livejournal.com]

Actually, I was planning on referring to choriamb's list of poets that they sent that columnist who implied there were only six well-known poets to create an initial tag load. That list had something like 400 poets.

As usual

[coyotecult.livejournal.com]

You are full of AWESOME.