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"This is to inform you that I didn't die young." (Look to the left side of the cement foundation for the hand printed message.) Photo by Marash Girl
Walking through Cold Spring Park on a cold spring day, Marash Girl and Marash Boy came upon an old cellar hole with the following message printed neatly on the cracked cement foundation:
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"This is to inform you that I didn't die young."
Unsure as to who wrote the message or why, whether the owner of the house or the house itself was the "I" in the sentence, and who the "you" was meant to be, Marash Boy and Marash Girl decided to depart the scene quietly, leaving the mystery for a Newton author of the mystery genre to discover and uncover!
It is a line from a poem by Jim Harrison, called "Barking." Here it is. Simple. Succinct. Sincere. But also profound!
ReplyDeleteThe moon comes up.
The moon goes down.
This is to inform you
that I didn’t die young.
Age swept past me
but I caught up.
Spring has begun here and each day
brings new birds up from Mexico.
Yesterday I got a call from the outside
world but I said no in thunder.
I was a dog on a short chain
and now there’s no chain.
The question still remains: Who wrote this quotation and why there???
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