27 January 2018: "'Having a Coke with You' is about the everyday moment exalted to a new level of revelry, superseding the varied experiences the world offers, simply because of the presence of another person." --Jac Kuntz, writing on O'Hara's poem.
Kuntz's essay is a lovely appreciation, reminding me of just why this poem is so delightful. O'Hara's voice is so sweet and excited and passionate and funny here, caught up in energizing, transformative love, when the ordinary is extraordinary.
Current favorite lines:
"I look
at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world
except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it’s in the Frick
which thank heavens you haven’t gone to yet so we can go together the first time."
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