I would not paint a picture

I would not paint - a picture -
I'd rather be the One
It's bright impossibility
To dwell - delicious - on -
And wonder how the fingers feel
Whose rare - celestial - stir -
provokesEvokes so sweet a torment -
Such sumptuous - Despair -

I would not talk, like Cornets -
I'd rather be the One
Raised softly toHorizons the Ceilings -
Andby - out, and easy on -
Through Villages of Ether -
Myselfupborne • upheld • sustained endued Balloon
By but a lip of Metal -
The pier to my Pontoon -

Nor would I be a Poet -
It's finer - Own the Ear -
Enamored - impotent - content -
The License to revere,
Aluxury privilege so awful
What would the Dower be,
Had I the Art to stun myself
With Bolts - of Melody!