By What They Say
It’s tomorrow’s
drama, to study from today.
Since tomorrow a
bunch of us will already be in the ground.
Tomorrow is too
many males, not even half a female....
Don’t talk to me too
much about tomorrow, please.
By what they say,
we’ll be doing better tomorrow.
May the God of Ready
Money help us all.
Today’s blood,
sweat and tears
will be
yesterday’s by tomorrow.
By what they say...
(I say no, I say
no...)
If not tomorrow, the day after, yes; maybe day after that...
In the future of later they tighten our question further.
By what they say,
you’re best off collecting shadows;
what goes before makes
clear how to dance in reverse.
They say it’s not
bad to go hungry today,
no one foresees
going hungry day after tomorrow.
By what they say,
tomorrow we’ll be doing better.
The rivers of
milk and of honey...
By what they say
...
(I say no, I say
no ...)
Happiness bouncing
and the sun working two by two:
you get your humiliation
at half price.
If not tomorrow, the
day after, yes; maybe day after that...
In the future of later they tighten our question further.
By what they say,
we’ll be better off tomorrow.
May the God of
Ready Money help us all.
Today’s blood,
sweat and tears
will be
yesterday’s by tomorrow.
By what they say...
(I say no, I say
no...)
As many hooks, so much remorse!
We’ll know the truth tomorrow.
Translated by Elizabeth Macklin
Manipulazio estrategiak (*Zart, 2020)