Constantly risking whenever she performs
Above the heads of her audience
The poet, like an acrobat,
Climbs on rhyme to a high wire and balancing
On light beams above a sea of faces
Paces her way to the other side of day
Performing entrechats and sleight of foot tricks
And other high theatrics
I? Forget love?
Not a chance.
Ferlinghetti
Constantly risking whenever she performs Above the heads of her audience The poet, like an acrobat, Climbs on rhyme to a high wire and balancing On light beams above a sea of faces Paces her way to the other side of day Performing entrechats and sleight of foot tricks And other high theatrics I? Forget love? Not a chance.