13. Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed) by Frank O'Hara - A Friend to Harry Jelly
The Poetry Exchange
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What's the Biggest Thing in This Poem?
There's something quite camp about it. There's a sort of a gossipy. It feels very modern. In the kind of celebrity age that we're in now. So you don't actually really have to necessarily engage with that headline. Like the big thing that seems to be overshadowing the whole thing isn't the important thing in this poem. And the trotting along. I just love trotting. You've got lonely tourniquetps and then I was trotting Along. That's just comical. But what would be the circumstances when you might find yourself kind of reciting it to yourself in your head? Sometimes I really consciously think like I'd like
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