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[rubyredstained]

"The World Is a Beautiful Place"
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

Comments

[your-razvan.livejournal.com]

Feeling sad, are we?

[rubyredstained.livejournal.com]

It's hard to be cheerful while Mara is missing.

[your-razvan.livejournal.com]

Indeed it is.

[rubyredstained.livejournal.com]

I just don't get how it's possible.

[your-razvan.livejournal.com]

Weird shite happens in London. But she'll be alright.

[rubyredstained.livejournal.com]

You're sweet.

Do you play an instrument?

[your-razvan.livejournal.com]

I am incredible at both the air guitar and the kazoo.

[rubyredstained.livejournal.com]

That is fantastic.

[your-razvan.livejournal.com]

I am, yes!

[deirdre-ionuin.livejournal.com]

AHhaha you're a knob.

[your-razvan.livejournal.com]

Your opinion is noted, Miss Deirdre.

[deirdre-ionuin.livejournal.com]

:D!

[deirdre-ionuin.livejournal.com]

Well wow.

[rubyredstained.livejournal.com]

Pretty much.

[officiallybeige.livejournal.com]

Shit yeah.

[rubyredstained.livejournal.com]

's deep.

The Pope wears underwear I hope

[officiallybeige.livejournal.com]

It's what it's all about.

He's done another poem about underwear too, I'm just looking him up.

I didn’t get much sleep last night
thinking about underwear
Have you ever stopped to consider
underwear in the abstract
When you really dig into it
some shocking problems are raised
Underwear is something we all have to deal with
Everyone wears
some kind of underwear
Even Indians wear underwear
Even Cubans
wear underwear
The Pope wears underwear I hope
The Governor of Louisiana wears underwear
I saw him on TV
He must have had tight underwear
He squirmed a lot
Underwear can really get you in a bind
You have seen the underwear ads for men and women
so alike but so different
Women’s underwear holds things up
Men’s underwear holds things down
Underwear is one thing
men and women do have in common
Underwear is all we have between us
You have seen the three-color pictures
with crotches encircled
to show the areas of extra strength
with three-way stretch
promising full freedom of action
Don’t be deceived
It’s all based on the two-party system
which doesn’t allow much freedom of choice
the way things are set up
America in its Underwear
struggles thru the night
Underwear controls everything in the end
Take foundation garments for instance
They are really fascist forms
of underground government
making people believe
something but the truth
telling you what you can of can’t do
Did you ever try to get around a girdle
Perhaps Non-Violent Action
is the only answer
Did Gandhi wear a girdle?
Did Lady Macbeth wear a girdle?
Was that why Macbeth murdered sleep?

And the spot she was always rubbing -
Was it really her underwear?
Modern anglosaxon ladies
must have huge guilt complexes
always washing and washing and washing
Out damned spot
Underwear with spots very suspicious
Underwear with bulges very shocking
Underwear on clothesline a great flag of freedom
Someone has escaped his Underwear
May be naked somewhere
Help!
But don’t worry
Everybody’s still hung up in it
There won’t be no real revolution
And poetry still the underwear of the soul
And underwear still covering
a multitude of faults

in the geological sense -
strange sedimentary stones, inscrutable cracks!
If I were you I’d keep aside
an oversize pair of winter underwear
Do not go naked into that good night
And in the meantime
keep calm and warm and dry
No use stirring ourselves up prematurely
‘over Nothing’
Move forward with dignity
hand in vest
Don’t get emotional
And death shall have no dominion
There’s plenty of time my darling
Are we not still young and easy?
Don’t shout.

Re: The Pope wears underwear I hope

[rubyredstained.livejournal.com]

And the spot she was always rubbing -
Was it really her underwear?

She probably would have been happier!