So I found an old Emily Dickinson book today. Maybe sometime before I leave again I'll find my Robert Frost book too and then my life will be complete. I don't like biographies of Emily Dickinson though, or of most poets. It bothers me how boring they seem to be, and I don't think they'd ever have described themselves in such terms.
Write No Books About Me
Write no books about me
Please create of me no lore
I will not have my vibrant life
Condensed into a bore
I live among the living,
But I'll die among the dead
So make no statuettes of just
My shoulders, neck, and head
Please add me to no textbooks
With a paragraph or page
I'll have no future students think
My wisdom transcends age
Keep me far from museums
Draw no portraits of my face
A pedestal would make me feel
Completely out of place
If you choose to remember me
-And, if you'd like, you may-
Remember ordinarily
The me of every day
Thursday, August 18, 2011
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