To Seem Beautiful

Xray of my tooth overlaid with a photo of lava

I love the daily poems I receive from Matthew Ogle, pome@mattogle.com. His choice one day from Frank O’Hara written in the year of my birth helped me confront my toxic impatience with myself.
 
from Mayakovsky
 
Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.
 
Frank O’Hara (1957)
 

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