FULL MOON ON TOP OF A CHAMPAGNE PALM'S TIP

FOR ALL THE LITTLE THINGS THAT YOU REMEMBER DURING OUR SCHOOL DAYS
( for NOL)

inch by inch you have to wash
the pair of pants
scrub the floor two times a day
throw away to the rice fields those
violating shoes

to the tower of Babel
you draw water for the priestess
to have her bath
pail by pail
glass unto glass

verbal abuse is the code in those days
our days
we want to end them and in late night
sleep we think no more
what sacrifices we have to make some
more
some more some more
that drowning some more
that do not drown
us anymore

just to finish school.