Humdrum

Humdrum

 by Carl Sandburg

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

   each and every time I died

   and started life all over again.

I wouldn’t want the same name every time

   and the same old house number always,

   dying a million deaths,

   dying one by one a million times:

   —would you?

                        or you?

                                or you?