recipe for happiness

“There’s always hope in love. Love and hate are viruses. Love can make a civilization bloom and hate can kill a civilization,” Lawrence Ferlinghetti told KQED  when they returned, at his request, to complete their interview of him on a more positive note. In the first round, he had portrayed a fake-artistic city with no artists, because artists can't afford to live in SF these days, at least not the undiscovered ones, or poets (when do they ever make money?) . At the interview do-over,  he read this poem:

“Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace”

One grand boulevard with trees
with one grand cafe in sun
with strong black coffee in very small cups.
One not necessarily very beautiful
man or woman who loves you.
One fine day.

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