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[kleenexwoman]

Sammi came back. The house is much louder and smells of smoke. The cats seem very happy.

The TV is back on. Seth and I mostly used the TV for Venture Brothers and the odd movie. I'm not used to having it constantly on anymore. :/ We were watching a VH1 special on Britney Spears. It reminded me of this poem:


Poem

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

--Frank O'Hara

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[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten how much I love this poem! Apparently he wrote it while on a ferry with Robert Lowell to go to some poet's convention, and it only took him about five minutes to write, and he read it there and people really liked it, and the fact that everyone loved a poem that O'Hara wrote in just five minutes got Robert Lowell incredibly pissed off because he was a nutcase. :D