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Lawrence Ferlinghetti:  POETRY AS NEWS

#25 [The world is a beautiful place]

          The world is a beautiful place
                                                       to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
                                        not always being
                                                            so very much fun
          if you don't mind a touch of hell
                                                        now and then
                    just when everything is fine
                                                      because even in heaven
                                            they don't sing
                                                                   all the time
                    The world is a beautiful place
                                                                   to be born into
          if you don't mind some people dying
                                                                          all the time
                                        or maybe only starving
                                                                      some of the time
                    which isn't half so bad
                                                       if it isn't you

Oh the world is a beautiful place
                                                       to be born into
          if you don't much mind
                                                 a few dead minds
               in the higher places
                                                  or a bomb or two
                       now and then
                                            in your upturned faces
   or such other improprieties
                                                as our Name Brand society
                                  is prey to
                                                  with its men of distinction
          and its men of extinction
                                                  and its priests
                    and other patrolmen

                                                  and its various segregations
   and congressional investigations
                                                       and other constipations
                  that our fool flesh
                                                  is heir to

    Yes the world is the best place of all
                                                            for a lot of such things as
          making the fun scene
                                                 and making the love scene
and making the sad scene
                                   and singing low songs and having inspirations
     and walking around
                                   looking at everything
                                                                     and smellng flowers
     and goosing statues
                                   and even thinking
                                                            and kissing people and
          making babies and wearing pants
                                                            and waving hats and
                                        dancing
                                                       and going swimming in rivers
                              on picnics
                                        in the middle of summer
          and just generally
                                      'living it up'

Yes
    but then right in the middle of it
                                                  comes the smiling

                                        mortician

 

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