I love this poem. Its funny. And anyone whose ever loaned money to someone before knows how the debt nags at you like something caught between your teeth. You don't want to nag, but you want your money. Or you want the issue resolved and don't want to come out looking like a sucker.
If I Should Die,
by Ben King
IF I should die to-night
And you should come to my cold corpse and say,
Weeping and heartsick o'er my lifeless clay--
If I should die to-night,
And you should come in deepest grief and woe--
And say: "Here's that ten dollars that I owe,"
I might arise in my large white cravat
And say, "What's that?"
If I should die to-night
And you should come to my cold corpse and kneel,
Clasping my bier to show the grief you feel,
I say, if I should die to-night
And you should come to me, and there and then
Just even hint 'bout payin' me that ten,
I might arise the while,
But I'd drop dead again.
Saturday, March 12, 2005
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