"run your finger along your no-moss mind / that's not a thought that's soot"
— O'Hara, Francis Russell "Frank" (1926-1966)
Work Title
Place of Publication
San Francisco
Publisher
City Lights Books
Date
1959, 1964
Metaphor
"run your finger along your no-moss mind / that's not a thought that's soot"
Metaphor in Context
someone comes along with a very bad character
he seems attractive. is he really. yes. very
he's attractive as his character is bad. is it. yes
that's what you think of in the city
run your finger along your no-moss mind
that's not a thought that's soot
and you take a lot of dirt off someone
is the character less bad. no. it improves constantly
you don't refuse to breathe do you
he seems attractive. is he really. yes. very
he's attractive as his character is bad. is it. yes
that's what you think of in the city
run your finger along your no-moss mind
that's not a thought that's soot
and you take a lot of dirt off someone
is the character less bad. no. it improves constantly
you don't refuse to breathe do you
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Frank O'Hara, Lunch Poems (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1964).
Date of Entry
05/29/2018
