Why do Ghosts wear Clothes
Why do the Ghosts wear Clothes—
If Flesh has fled away—
Is Modesty a Habit
That Survives the Grave’s Delay?
Perhaps the Mind remembers
The Shape it used to be—
And wraps itself in Cotton Thought's
For old Identity—
Or maybe Death is bashful—
And veils what it has done—
Lest we should see the Truth too plain
And tremble—then be gone—
If Spirits roam unclothed of Bone
Yet stitched in Former Care,
Then Clothes are but a Memory
The Soul refused—to Bare—
I asked a passing Phantom once—
It neither spoke—nor smiled—
But buttoned up its Silence tight
And drifted—unware—
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