My heart

I'm not going to cry all the time

nor shall I laugh all the time

I don't prefer one "strain" to another

I'd have the immediacy of a bad movie

not just a sleeper but also the big

over-produced first-run kind. I want to be

at least as alive as the vulgar. And if

some aficionado of my mess says "That's

not like Frank!" all to the god! I

don't wear brown and grey suits all the time

do I? No I wear workshirts to the opera

often. I want my feet to be bare

I want my face to be shaven and my heart--

you can't plan on the heart but

the better part of it my poetry is open.