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vriad_leeIf by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!
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Date: 2006-02-14 08:39 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2006-02-14 08:51 pm (UTC)or a bomb or two
now and then
in your upturned faces
this is hilarious
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Date: 2006-02-14 08:53 pm (UTC)i like it if only because of:
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
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Date: 2006-02-14 09:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-14 09:03 pm (UTC)i am water, even.
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Date: 2006-02-14 09:07 pm (UTC)now, i find myself willing to say 'it's a good poem', if there's anything good in a poem at all. like, that whining about dead minds in the higher places, i just skip it in my head, it's not interesting at all
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Date: 2006-02-14 09:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-02-14 09:14 pm (UTC)To poke, prod, or pinch (a person) between or on the buttocks
maybe he's talking about... pawing statues?
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Date: 2006-02-14 09:16 pm (UTC)you russians!
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Date: 2006-02-14 09:33 pm (UTC)and yes, basically, i like the idea of annoying you.
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Date: 2006-02-14 09:41 pm (UTC)And yet one arrives somehow,
finds himself loosening the hooks of
her dress
in a strange bedroom--
feels the autumn
dropping its silk and linen leaves
about her ankles.
The tawdry veined body emerges
twisted upon itself
like a winter wind . . . !
William Carlos Williams
that's about my arrival to canada, your veined body emerges
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Date: 2006-02-14 10:04 pm (UTC)now i'm going to go get ready for the lesbians.
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Date: 2006-02-14 10:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-14 10:07 pm (UTC)~good night/day
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Date: 2006-02-14 09:57 pm (UTC)twisted upon itself
like a winter wind . . . !
in fact maybe we are not supposed to understand this at all
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