Happiness
If you have acquired a taste for happiness
it’s very hard to do without
so you try jollity for a while
jokes
and
merriment
Song is one of the famous methods
for continuing or entrenching happiness
You may say what
about sex is it its own
keen pleasure or according to some
the night’s sorrow
Here is another example of ordinary joy
it is prose but uses whole days and nights
the gathering together of comrades
in bitter disagreement then resolution
followed by determined action
Still the face of life will change
partly because of those miserable scratches it makes
on its own aging surface
then
happiness
in the risky busy labor of Repair the World
after which for the unsated there will surely be
talking all night dances in schoolrooms and kitchens
and later
love
of happiness the most famous of all