Cornhuskers/Humdrum

by Carl Sandburg

HUMDRUM

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?