Frank O'Hara, apropos of nothing

Frank O'Hara was the roommate of Edward Gorey when they went to school together at Harvard. While Frank O'Hara was gay, Edward Gorey was very sexless, or so he said. Frank O'Hara died at the age of forty, though he looked older, presumably from a rough life of drinking and smoking. Although maybe it was just that back then everyone was older looking. I only imagine he had a rough life, being gay, smoking and the way people drank back then. Plus he died on Fire Island. 

He was handsome from the front but his beaky nose from the side is distractingly unusual, as it were. As you can see from the photographs below.

I have always admired Edward Gorey, and very much appreciated his art. I somehow also always hoped to meet him, as I did Julia Child. But I did not. I did meet Maurice Sendak once though.