| Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Cornhuskers. 1918. |
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| 57. Humdrum |
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| IF I had a million lives to live | |
| and a million deaths to die | |
| in a million humdrum worlds, | |
| I’d like to change my name | |
| and have a new house number to go by | 5 |
| each and every time I died | |
| and started life all over again. | |
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| I wouldn’t want the same name every time | |
| and the same old house number always, | |
| dying a million deaths, | 10 |
| dying one by one a million times: | |
| —would you? | |
| or you? | |
| or you? | |
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