Spring and All: XIV [Of death]
Of death
the barber
the barber
talked to me
cutting my
life with
sleep to trim
my hair —
It’s just
a moment
he said, we die
every night —
And of
the newest
ways to grow
hair on
bald death –
I told him
of the quartz
lamp
and of old men
with third
sets of teeth
to the cue
of an old man
who said
at the door —
Sunshine today!
for which
death shaves
him twice
a week
Copyright Credit: William Carlos Williams, "XIV [Of death]" from Spring and All. Copyright © 1923 by William Carlos Williams. Reprinted by permission of Public Domain.