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Linnk
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From: norway
Registered: May 2007

posted May 18, 2007 06:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Linnk     Edit/Delete Message
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

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MysticMelody
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posted May 18, 2007 07:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MysticMelody     Edit/Delete Message
If the mortician comes for you...

Just hit

Start

New Game

and then you can put in the code for unlimited lives if you have it.

With enough experience and effort you will conquer the bad guys. But then You will get bored and go out and find a new exciting game.
Or We will get bored.
Or He will get bored.
Eh, same thing.

I prefer Harvest Moon to Mortal Combat, but I can do both. A fan with poisonous spikes... hmmmm....

Thanks for posting this poem for Us. I liked it. Nice Mother T poem too. Although its a little depressing in uh light of this poem.
I'll have to give the rotting/falling apart geese poem another look. I assumed I got the idea, but I didn't take it apart to fully examine it... it was gross and stinky. I'll get some gloves and a breathing mask and then take a look.

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Lake Dance
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Registered: May 2007

posted May 18, 2007 11:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lake Dance     Edit/Delete Message

Thanks, Linnk

Lake

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Linnk
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Posts: 50
From: norway
Registered: May 2007

posted May 19, 2007 07:56 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Linnk     Edit/Delete Message
I'm glad the two of you liked it It's a very good poem, I think.

"I'll have to give the rotting/falling apart geese poem another look. I assumed I got the idea, but I didn't take it apart to fully examine it... it was gross and stinky. I'll get some gloves and a breathing mask and then take a look."

You do that:P, but to be honest; to me it's just funny. Didn't mean anything special, it's just a funny and dark humour...:P

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