This Fine Art

as monotonous as knitting,
as melancholy as piano,
as treacherous as fencing,
as solitary as painting,
as ferocious as poetry,
as chilling as the bull-fight,
as uplifting as gardening,
as erotic as sculpture,
as painful as ballet,
as aristocratic as the fox-hunt,
as empty as body-building,
as challenging as the bull's eye,
as redeeming as the hole-in-one,
this fine art called living.