A Matter of Interpretation
Nov. 26th, 2016 11:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowMary Chapin Carpenter's lovely elegy "This Shirt" includes the following lines:
This shirt was the place your catDo you read "the last one" as meaning "the last one to be born", or "the last one to die"?
Decided to give birth to five
And we stayed up all night watching
And we wept when the last one died
