Life and My Scrapbook

Life and my scrapbook
Are made up haphazardly:
The smiles and the tears
Lie so close together
That at times the division line
Is almost indistinguishable.
Births and deaths and weddings,
Words of wisdom,
Bits of inanity,
Are so intermingled
It is quite impossible
To retain one mood for long–
Either sadness or levity.
That’s why they interest me–
Life and my scrapbook.

September 22, 1940