You need to be clicking your fingers to a beat to really enjoy, but it’s still good with out one!
Not like Dante
discovering a commedia
upon the slopes of heaven
I would paint a different kind
of Paradiso
in which the people would be naked
as they always are
in scenes like that
because it is suppose to be
a painting of their souls
but there would be no anxious angels telling them
how heaven is
the perfect picture of
a monarchy
and there would be no fires burning
in hellish holes below
in which I might have stepped
nor any altars in the sky except
fountains of imagination
©Lawrence Ferlinghetti
