—Photo by Kathy Kieth, Diamond Springs
DEATH SNIPS PROUD MEN
—Carl Sandburg
DEATH is stronger than all the governments because the
governments are men and men die and then death laughs: Now you see ’em, now you
don’t.
Death is stronger than all proud men and so death snips
proud men on the nose, throws a pair of dice and says: Read ’em and weep.
Death sends a radiogram every day: When I want you I’ll drop
in—and then one day he comes with a master-key and lets himself in and says:
We’ll go now.
Death
is a nurse mother with big arms: ’Twon’t hurt you at all; it’s your time now;
you just need a long sleep, child; what have you had anyhow better than sleep?
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—Medusa
