If I should outlive my husband
I shall grow my hair long,
and put an advertisement in the paper-
Not the paper?
Well, perhaps on a noticeboard
In a college,
Where the young learn trades.
It shall say:
HELP WANTED
TO DAILY ARRANGE MY LONG HAIR SO,
PILED UP LIKE EIGHT SCORE YEARS AGO,
AND TO LISTEN WELL,
WITHOUT AWE OR SCORN,
TO TALES OF THE OLD WORLD.
I know not yet whether I shall lie
or misremember.
Add a horse here, barouche there,
Crinolines, wars, dodos,
Sacrifices.
But she (I think she is a girl) will
take it in her stride,
Living as she does
in the world Arrived.
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