FRANK O'HARA'S DAY

Frank O'Hara
is not here
but at the Cedar bar
having returned
with a bard
from the  muddy waves
of nights on Fire Island
burned up
with a bright stud joker
playing chess
with a pack of cards
and finding a joker
Manhattan wept for you
on the fire escape
and taxis
only dictators,
anti semites
racists despise you
the killers of Lorca
followers of
human S.S. beasts
of Nazi Germany
who hate the Beats.