if you have got the impression poets live
to no purpose, then
give them something to work on, such as
an execution and a child birth in one pack,
two in one.

wait for about twenty years, let them play
with them, with their meaning.

you will see how they divide into
carpe diem poets
with flooding clues to everything

and poets of wandering abysses
eyes wide open
fishing the poem in the post-mortem
to no avail.



Note: Even though an execution and a child birth can refer to any execution or child birth anywhere in the world, this here refers specifically to the execution of the former presidential couple on the 25th of December 1989, broadcast on TV a few days after. I have been haunted for sometime by the effects on the Romanian psyche and I still have not got any answers.