I GIVE the undertakers permission to haul my body to the graveyard and to lay away all, the head, the feet, the hands, all: I know there is something left over they can not put away. Let the nanny goats and the billy goats of the shanty people eat the clover over my grave and if any yellow hair or any blue smoke of flowers is good enough to grow over me let the dirty-fisted children of the shanty people pick these flowers. I have had my chance to live with the people who have too much and the people who have too little and I chose one of the two and I have told no man why. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME by ROBERT HERRICK THE SPIRIT OF SHAKESPEARE: 1 by GEORGE MEREDITH THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 69. AUTUMN IDLENESS by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI THE GHOST by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM THREE SONGS OF LOVE (CHINESE FASHION): 3. LOVE CALL by WILLIAM A. BEATTY FOR A BEAUTIFUL YOUTH by THALIA BELL |