Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac. (Frank O'Hara)

Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac.

Frank O'Hara

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