Saturday Poem

“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
…………………………………………….……. —William Blake


Snatch of Sliphorn Jazz

Are you happy? It’s the only
way to be, kid.
Yes, be happy, it’s a good
nice way to be.
But not happy-happy, kid, don’t
be too doubled-up doggone happy.
It’s the doubled-up doggone happy-

happy people bust hard they

do bust hard when they bust.

Be happy, kid, go to it, but not too
doggone happy.

Carl Sandburg
from Harvest Poems 1910-1960
Harvest Books, 1960
.