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You can’t fucking do this to me
People getting mad that the second one is winning like this isn’t the fucking call and response website. Like the taste of meta isn’t enough to get people frothing like piranhas. Where do you think you ARE
Sorry I reread these together and like I just love the poll owner for doing this. For putting them directly next to each other so that you directly compare and contrast them. Because I think both are made so much more beautiful by the presence of the other.
Like the second poem is one of the most beautiful celebrations of love, not only real tangible love between people, but love of poetry, and love of how poetry and art can make things mean more than they do on their own
And the first one—god, the first one! Not only is it just a masterpiece in and of itself, the cadence and rhythm, I really, really recommend looking up Frank O'Hara reading it out because you can’t feel it in its fullness without his soft voice tacking on those “partly"s
But also when you have the first one and the second, you have a call: "what’s the point in art? What’s the point in it when you outshine it all? And even then, I use that art to describe you, it gave me language!” and a response, “your work—frank o'hara—became the art I initially did not respond to and did not understand until someone—the you in the poem—presented it to me and told me how you saw it and asked what you thought about what I saw, and it gave me spectacles to see not only my own feelings but how art might do that all the time, all over the world.”
I don’t think I’ve ever loved a set of poems in conversation like this one. I keep coming back to it and rereading both together. I love art. I love you
