Geoff Hattersley - Frank O'Hara Five, Geoffrey Chaucer Nil

Photo taken in Durham when we were there!!!!

Frank O'Hara Five, Geoffrey Chaucer Nil

I think on the whole I would rather read
Frank O'Hara than Geoffrey Chaucer, and
this fine, non-smoking morning could well be
the right time to try out a new (uh hum)

poetic form. It's the funniest thing:
I am here, thirty years of age, having
put booze, and all sorts of, say, 'dubious
substances' behind me, now sweating it

all out in a small, constipated room
with a plump tomato of a woman,
conjugating Middle English verbs. I have
developed a line, a very brief line,

in gestures of friendliness, and in my
trousers an idea is taking shape...

http://yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem-Of-The-Week-Frank-OHara-Five-Geoffrey-Chaucer-Nil-By-Geoff-Hattersley

Taken from Don't Worry by Geoff Hattersely, published by Bloodaxe Books (or Dufour Editions, if you're in the USA)