Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poems

The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always being
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I am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting
for a rebirth of wonder
and I am waiting
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Constantly risking absurdity
and death
whenever he performs
above the heads
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Sometime during eternity
some guys show up
and one of them
who shows up real late
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Don't let that horse
         eat that violin
cried Chagall's mother
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There's a breathless hush on the freeway tonight
Beyond the ledges of concrete
restaurants fall into dreams
with candlelight couples
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Night closed my windows and
The sky became a crystal house
The crystal windows glowed
The moon
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It was a face which darkness could kill
in an instant
a face as easily hurt
by laughter or light
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Long long I lay in the sands

Sounds of trains in the surf
in subways of the sea
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The pennycandystore beyond the El
is where i first
fell in love
with unreality
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