To the poem
Let us do something grand
just this once Something
small and important and
unAmerican Some fine thing
will resemble a human hand
and really be merely a thing
Not needing a military band
nor an elegant forhcoming
to teast spotlights or a hand
from public’s thinking
But be In a defiant land
of its own a real right thing
— Frank O’Hara. 1952 or 53.
