Dreamhouse

Impossible to believe we need so much
as the world wants us to buy.
I have more clothes, lamps, dishes, paperclips,
than I could possibly use before I die.
Oh, I would like to live in an empty grass.
No planks, no plastic, no fiberglass.
And I suppose sometime I will.
Old and cold I will lie apart from all this buying
and selling, with only the beautiful earth in my heart.

Mary Oliver