They will ring the bells the first of June Some good reasons for that The most important one is that It is the first of June *** How beautiful to be a watermark On the surface of a cloud that does not see the sun Then you watch the world from afar Like a movie you do not care about: The hero who is loaded with problems Stirs joys Because you are not him Even if you shed a tear -as it is only appropriate- Then You change the TV channel to: ‘Shopping through TV.’ *** When they ring the cups the first of June Do not be sad You lived so many nights with no headaches And do not forget that Virginia Woolf suffered much more than you do. *** To be a watermark Means The world noise will not scare you Neither will the bills Not even the liar whom you loved You will take revenge when he becomes alone And the police will arrest him on the charge of being bald. When I become a watermark I will make you, my lover, miscalculate the pimples My mother planted on my forehead To drive men away. *** You do not look like Renoir’s women And you do not look like the Messiah. *** When I die on the first of June, you will believe That the newspapers which were yellow and dirty Got illegally pregnant And dropped their embryos under the wheels of the jets At Almaza Airport Where everybody is ready to forgive And mitigate ears Before they catch the shipment worker sighing: What a miserable woman! She will never have a daughter. *** Why do you close your eyes, darling? To distinguish between the jet’s roar And your untidy hair That grows an inch Every time you lie to me. ___________ 23 June 2005