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Constantly risking absurdity

and death

whenever he performs

above the heads

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of his audience

the poet like an acrobat

climbs on rime

to a high wire of his own making

and balancing on eyebeams

above a sea of faces

paces his way

to the other side of day

A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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