Doing a bit of slightly uncool Mad Men research on Youtube, I just stumbled across this: a video of the poet Frank O'Hara reading his poem Having A Coke With You. I love it. How could you ever be unhappy again if someone had written this about you?
It sticks with me that my dad has told me several times that poets are the most talented and remarkable writers - he's right.
Alex Fuggan
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Alex Curran, WAG extraordinnaire, has done it again. [Photo: WENN.com]Where
does she GET this crappy stuff? WAGs Fifth Avenue? WAGs and Barrel?
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2 hours ago
4 readers just couldn't let me have the last word:
This is amazing. I haven't been able to watch the clip, but have Googled the poem. It gets better each time you read it. I'm finding it quite hard to stop.
It is beautiful, and all the more flattering and persuasive because it rings so true.
Did your Dad also say that poets are not always the best readers, though? I bet, for instance, WH Auden couldn't do half the job John Hannah did on 'Funeral Blues'.
He does say that, yeah! In particular he sometimes says that Phillip Larkin was terrible at reading his own work.
I think Frank O'Hara does a pretty good job though.
There is nothing uncool about watching Mad Men on youtube. Especially because they seemed determined to make me wait a whole year before I get a new episode.
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