After the first glass of vodka 
you can accept just about anything 
of life even your own mysteriousness 
you think it is nice that a box 
of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden 
for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don’t you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there?

- Frank O’Hara, The Collected Poems