Tuesday, March 4, 1969 (9 P.M.)

Philip Fischer

If dead is a place then
So much
Is life, and
You. And if death is not new businesss
(The censure of beautiful lines)
We will be children;
Unlike in our ways
(Thus new in time, and
Ever old yes in kind).

Remember us (Spring)
Because we are 
With you. And
Death, too, (old business,
Young woman) will you behave
(Like a child) will
Wonder.