The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #132848   Message #3009980
Posted By: Bettynh
18-Oct-10 - 02:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: Composting
Subject: RE: BS: Composting
In Dead Earnest

If I should die before I wake
All my bone and sinew take
Put them in the compost pile
To decompose a little while
Sun, rain and worms will have their way
Reducing me to common clay
All that I am will feed the trees
And little fishes in the seas
When corn and radishes you munch
You may be having me for lunch
The excrete me with a grin
Chortling, There goes Lee again
'Twill be my happiest destiny
To die and live eternally
       Lee Hays, 1981