Carl Sandburg

Humdrum

IF I had a million lives to live  
   and a million deaths to die  
   in a million humdrum worlds,  
I’d like to change my name  
   and have a new house number to go by      
   each and every time I died  
   and started life all over again.  
 
I wouldn’t want the same name every time  
   and the same old house number always,  
   dying a million deaths,    
   dying one by one a million times:  
   —would you?  
             or you?  
                   or you?

Cornhuskers. 1918.

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