Now listen.
Three weeks or so ago I came home late.
They told me somebody had called on me,
I don't know why,
And I was thinking all night long:
Who was it? What did he need?
The following day he called again
But didn't find me in. And then one day
As was playing with my boy,
Somebody hailed me. I went out
A man in black bowed kindly to me
And ordered Requiem, and disappeared.