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Then they're more
in this series,

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but I don't think it ends
even as well as it begins

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because the last
four or five poems

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try to find an answer
to this question,

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why do little boys die.

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I don't know exactly
what that answer is.

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It's easier to
present the question

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than to find the kind
of answer in a case

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like this or sometimes
ratings of the classics,

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as they're called can suggest
a light lighter thing.

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I tried to write lately.

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These are unpublished some less
serious epitaphs, little poems

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of just two lines, which
are about immoral ladies who

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are dead.

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And they were called epitaphs
for light ladies, epitaphs

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for the light ladies.

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These aren't mimeographed,
but they're clear I think the.

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Very short.

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One goes, "Once
lovely Chloe here

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asleep in clay, warmed with warm
flesh whatever place she lay.

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And now so long a bed
yet cold as stone.

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And so on practiced
at it, so alone.

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Or" A second, "lie light on
the light lady somber alone.

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She's much converted
now, keeps to one home.

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Or Aggie who bragged she
gave her flesh to none

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laid with the common
dead as much undone."

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I guess she wasn't a
light lady, another kind.

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"Or the whole world takes
her to its bed below

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as she took all the
world or nearly so."

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[LAUGHTER] Or a different
one in this kind of series.

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This is an epitaph for a poet.

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"His life was scrawny,
but his verse sublime."

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That final word as
usual for the rhyme.

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[LAUGHTER] Or Maybe let's
see this isn't finished.

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"His life was Meager,
but his verse sublime."

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Here's seven words for
truth, the eighth for rhyme.

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Something like that.