Having a Coke with You by Frank O'Hara

Having a coke with you is even more fun than going to San Sebastian,Irun, Hendaye, Biarrity, Bayyone or being sick to my stomach
On the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona
Partly because in you orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian
Partly because of my love for you,
Partly because of your love for yogurt
Partly because of your flourescent orange tulips around the birches
Partly because of the secrecy of our smiles
Take on before people and statuary
It is hard to believe when I'm with you
That there can be anything as still
As solemn as unpleasantly definitive
As statuary when right in front of it

In the warm New York 4 o'clock light
We are drifting back and forth between each other like a tree
Breathing through its spectacles
And the portrait show seems to have
No faces in it at all, just paint 
You suddenly wonder
Why in the world anyone ever did them
I look at you and 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 havens you haven't gone to yet
So we can go together the first time 
And the fact that you move so beautifully
More or less takes care of futurism 
Just as at home I never think of the Nude Descending a Staircase
Or at a rehearsal a single drawing of Leonardo
Or Michelangelo that used to wow me 
And good does all the research of the Impressionists do them 
When they never got the right person
To stand near the tree when the sun sank
Or for that matter Marino Marini
When he didn't pick the rider as carefully as the horse
It seems they were all cheated of some marvelous experience
Which is not going to go wasted on me
Which is why I am telling you about it