Let James Laughlin tell you something you don’t know: why you don’t want to die.
THE JUNK COLLECTOR
what bothers me most about
the idea of having to die
(sooner or later) is that
the collection of junk I
have made in my head will
presumably be dissipated
not that there isn’t more
and better junk in other
heads & always will be but
I have become so fond of
my own head’s collection.
(James Laughlin’s poem is quoted from page 40 of the April 2, 2015, issue of The New York Review of Books.)
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