When I was a young boy,
my mama told me, “Son,
stick with the modern poets,
don’t bother reading Donne,”
but I read the Holy Sonnets
just to watch Death die,
and when I saw Emily Dickin-
son, I rolled on by.
When I was a young boy,
my mama told me, “Son,
stick with the modern poets,
don’t bother reading Donne,”
but I read the Holy Sonnets
just to watch Death die,
and when I saw Emily Dickin-
son, I rolled on by.