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Here is a poem and questions re: Contents of Dead Man http://rmd.me/VXnt
Compare ideas within Koch's poem to those in "Contents of a Dead man's Pocket"

You want a social life, with friends

Kenneth Koch

            You want a social life, with friends,

            A passionate love life and as well

            To work hard every day. What’s true

            Is of these three you may have two

5          And two can pay you dividends

            But never may have three.

            

There isn’t enough time, my friends—

            Though dawn begins, yet midnight ends—

            To find the time to have love, work, and friends.

10        Michelangelo had feeling

            For Vittoria and the Ceiling°

            But did he go to parties at day’s end?

            

Homer° nightly went to banquets

            Wrote all day but had no lockets

15        Bright with pictures of his Girl.

            I know one who loves and parties

            And has done so since his thirties

            But writes hardly anything at all.