Explore "Mazie Dies Alone in the City Hospital" by Langston Hughes on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
I hate to die this way with the quiet / Over everything like a shroud.
I'd rather die where the band's a playin'
Noisy and loud.
I'd rather die the way I lived --
Drunk and rowdy and gay;
God! Why did you ever curse me / Makin' me die this way?