***this Summer feels really pastel color wise and sort of hazy...in a pleasant, warm kind of way. just like how i imagine Coney Island when Lou and Lawrence describe its alleged magic.
| The World Is a Beautiful Place |
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| | 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 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 smelling 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 the summer
and just generally
'living it up'
Yes
but then right in the middle of it
comes the smiling
mortician |
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-Ferlinghetti
****Okay, so I know this poem is much more morbid and perhaps cynical in some aspects than the title ironically foreshadows but, with all the tradgedy and scandal and just overall bad news I have been intercepting I am finding it really difficult to enjoy anything that relates to me or my experiences on a personal level because there is a night-mare-ish amount of pain, loss, and unanswered questions plaguing a seemingly unfathomable amount of humans right now around the world.
my prayers, respect, love, and regard go out to the courageous and inspiring Jaycee Dugard and the beautiful little Caylee Anthony (rest in peace).
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I love this picture. I feel relax when I saw this post
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