Spring and All: XXV [Somebody dies every four minutes]
Somebody dies every four minutes
in New York State —
To hell with you and your poetry —
You will rot and be blown
through the next solar system
with the rest of the gases —
What the hell do you know about it ?
AXIOMS
Do not get killed
Careful Crossing Campaign
Cross Crossings Cautiously
THE HORSES black
&
PRANCED white
What’s the use of sweating over
this sort of thing, Carl ; here
it is all set up —
Outings in New York City
Ho for the open country
Dont’t stay shut up in hot rooms
Go to one of the Great Parks
Pelham Bay for example
It’s on Long Island sound
with bathing, boating
tennis, baseball, golf, etc.
Acres and acres of green grass
wonderful shade trees, rippling brooks
Take the Pelham Bay Park Branch
of the Lexington Ave. (East Side)
Line and you are there in a few
minutes
Interborough Rapid Transit Co.
William Carlos Williams, "XXV [Somebody dies every four minutes]" from Spring and All. Copyright © 1923 by William Carlos Williams. Reprinted by permission of Public Domain.
