William of Aquitaine Returns
“William of Aquitaine Returns,” Luis Alberto de Cuenca
Luis Alberto de Cuenca
William of Aquitaine Returns
I’m going to make a poem out of nothing.
You and I will be the protagonists.
Our emptiness, our loneliness,
the deadly boredom, the daily defeats:
all these things will go into the poem,
which is bound to be short, since they
fit in a few lines, maybe as few as seven,
or perhaps eight, if this last line counts.
—Translated from the Spanish by Gustavo Pérez Firmat
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