Re: This Compost

Klaus Wiegand (WIEGAND@lufa-sp.vdlufa.de)
Thu, 18 Nov 1999 13:03:51 +0200

>It's been...what...six years? since Willie Lockeretz opined here on
>SANET that Walt Whitman is the poet laureate of the sustainable ag
>movement,

this one's more original (and older i think. at least it sounds
less sad and more as life to be fun):

Lee's Living Will,
written by Lee Hayes to Pete Seeger's wife:

If I should die before I wake
All my bone and sinew take
Put me in the compost pile
To decompose me for a while

Worms, water, sun will have their way,
Returning me to common clay
All that I am will feed the trees
The plants, the fishes in the seas

When radishes and corn you munch
You'll be having me for lunch
And then excrete me with a grin
Chortling "There goes Lee again!"

klaus

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