I THE BOOK
The body can also be bent and battered
because they may leaf through it heedlessly
I am a confused heap of paper treated poorly
In the hands of he who in a waiting room
carelessly reads a magazine
which in a few days will end up
In a black polyethylene bag
Before that may happen, read in me
the last chapter of our story together
that you may know.
Enrique Lihn
Translation by Dave Oliphant