I break the line: are you game for the game?

[annaswirls]

this one is long, if you just want a warm up do the first stanza-- the rest I blurred together in one big run on sentence

remember, it is not about trying to get it like the original poet wrote it, just an exercize in how you think it could be should be might be done.

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

 

[unapologetic]

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.

(<----The smiling mortician?)

 

[Tzara]

The World Is a Beautiful Place
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.

 

[Tathagata]

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