Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Constantly risking absurdity lyrics

Constantly risking absurdity and d**h whenever he performs above the heads 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 performing entrechats and sleight-of-foot tricks and other high theatrics and all without mistaking any thing for what it may not be For he's the super realist who must perforce perceive taut truth before the taking of each stance or step in his supposed advance toward that still higher perch where Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her d**h-defying leap And he a little charleychaplin man who may or may not catch her fair eternal form spreadeagled in the empty air of existence