Logical

The shooting range is dark

in Luna Park

the toy rabbit  sleeps

its eternal sleep

the toy fox sleeps

by the box of sweets

sleeps too

the bottle of champagne

beside the pyramid

of paper cups

the matchsticks

sleep too

like soldiers

in formation

the gibbeted walnuts

sleep soundly

though the worms inside them

do not sleep

their jaws are moving,

reciting:

a firing squad

before the firing squad

worms

thus does the simple logic go

Translated by Tom Phillips