"I Really Want A Girl"

 

lf you will come with me

to my cabin on the Blackwater

I will show you

a used - to - be enchanted place.

 

Bent on making money,

commercial fishermen the like of

overstuffed, out of control thieves

set one thousand nets at once

across this ordinary river.

And meanwhile they are inclined to say

our gentle angling pastime

is an overvalued amusement.

 

Well, they cannot keep their hands off

and now they have biologically disfigured

another perfect place;

now they say they need some more

and everywhere animals are missing.

 

Those who set out to conquer nature

are dedicated to their master

and will live awhile under

this additional, overlapping curse:

 

these exhausted mumbling dimwits

who speak of harvesting quotas

habitually acquire used utensils

and fear my writing down.