K. McB.

←Dedication for a Plot of Ground

K. McB. by William Carlos Williams

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from Al Que Quiere! (1917)

You exquisite chunk of mud
Kathleen—just like
any other chunk of mud!
—especially in April!
Curl up round their shoes
when they try to step on you,
spoil the polish!
I shall laugh till I am sick
at their amazement.
Do they expect the ground to be
always solid?
Give them the slip then;
let them sit in you;
soil their pants;
teach them a dignity
that is dignity, the dignity
of mud!

            Lie basking in
the sun then—fast asleep!
Even become dust on occasion.

Notes and references

• taken from A Book of Poems: Al Que Quiere!

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