in the future poets will spend a long time learning another language first.

They’ll study grammar and vocabulary and rules and regulations.

They’ll watch television in foreign channels.

water

will splash iodized out of their plastic cups

Then

they will write

so somebody will listen

and they’ll cry at night

weeping whimpering mewlish (crocodile?) tears

into a stuffed pillow

begging the world

(or at least publishers)

for a TRANSLATOR.

mtk1995, Quito, Ecuador