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LAST POEM by PO CHU-YI

First Line: THEY HAVE PUT MY BED BESIDE THE UNPAINTED SCREEN
Last Line: I LIE BACK ON MY PILLOWS AND SLEEP WITH MY FACE TO THE SOUTH.
Subject(s): CHINA - TANG DYNASTY (618-905); DEATH; DEAD, THE;
THEY have put my bed beside the unpainted screen;
They have shifted my stove in front of the blue curtain.
I listen to my grandchildren, reading me a book;
I watch the servants, heating up my soup.
With rapid pencil I answer the poems of friends;
I feel in my pockets and pull out medicine-money.
When this superintendence of trifling affairs is done,
I lie back on my pillows and sleep with my face to the South.


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