The Morning Reading: "oh Lana Turner we love you get up"

Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!]
Frank O’Hara

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

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After last week's Tony Hoagland reading at UC Irvine, in response to a question about humor and poetry, Hoagland recited this O'Hara poem. So here it is. Enjoy.