This poem is taken from PN Review 77, Volume 17 Number 3, January - February 1991.
Three Poems
TRANSLATING THE TRANSLATORS
i
They called it
user-friendly -
it was the DIY
of a lethal dose.
Still, ghostwriting
its hors-texte
revolution made
us word-perfect,
unable to resist
those subliminal
slogans for the One
True Science
whose built-in
obsolescence
would one day cry
havoc and leave
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