I'd like to tell your husband Poem by Roberto Amato

I'd like to tell your husband:

Do you think you have a lyrical sense of the world?
He
would think about it for just a second and then reply
‘I don't know'.

I think I would look at him with an unsubstantiated
disgust like the love between scullery hands
and perhaps I'd pull out one of his hairs and split it four ways.

Just for the record - I'd say
- it's hardly a sensible act
but it's the only one I can think of.

And in any case you either have a lyrical sense of the world or haven't.

Translation: 2017, Matilda Colarossi