Amid Growing Concern Frank O'Hara Is Utterly Tone Deaf

after getting a gash in the head from falling off a cliff at Black Mountain

Super sloppy midnight lines of the heart,
oceans, and light just don’t digest too well

to those in possession
of recently unearthed consciousness.

It’s not every day
your idols become ether

screams this withering brain over a bed
of rice pilaf and worry.

Only with cats locked out
can one manage the dream
of alternative realities
distributed as equals.

Joseph Goosey is the author of the chapbook STUPID ACHE (Greybook Press, 2013) and one full length collection of poems, Parade Of Malfeasance (EMP Books, 2020). He lives in North Carolina.