O'Hara begins work on the poem "ORANGES" with a similarly casual attitude: "One day I am thinking / of a color: orange." As in the section dealing with Goldberg's painting, the phrase "days go by" is used to denote the mundane passage of time. Like Goldberg's work as a painter, O'Hara's work as a poet is rooted in the normal— and often uneventful—passage of time.