atlas

C. K. Williams: "The Coffin Store"

Mon, 11/10/2008 - 06:00 - The New Yorker

I was lugging my death from Kampala to Kraków.
Death, what a ridiculous load you can be,
like the world atremble on Atlas’s shoulders.

In Kampala I’d wondered why the people, so poor,
didn’t just kill me. Why don’t they kill me?
In Kraków I must have fancied I’d find . . .