i'll take life by the spoonful today.
shoot! i deleted my birthday entry. i hate livejournal.
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 as bad
if it isn't you.
oh, the world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind much
a few dead minds
in the higher places
or a bomb or two
in your upturned faces
or such other improprieties
as our name brand society
is prey to
with it's men of distinction
and it's men of extinction
and it's preists and other patrolmen
and it's 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 even thinking.
and kissing people and
making babies and wearing pants
waving hats and
dancing
and going swimming in rivers
on picnics
in the middle of summer
and just generally "living it up".
yes.
but then right in the middle of it
comes the smiling
mortician.