Real Eyes! Poem by Konstantin Ananin

- We’re in danger. A comet will hit
The Earth. Did you realize what’s in it?
This stone’s a comet; your head’s a planet.
I’m throwing. Oh! Where is your helmet?
- What have you done? It’s hit my head!
Help me to stand up. I feel bad.
- I’m so sorry. When I threw, I tried…
You see, a comet hit, and dinosaurs died.
- God damn! You asked about my eyes,
But yours can’t see at all. Oh my!
- What are you about?
___________________- You should have looked
If I had a helmet, but first you took
This frigging stone!
__________________- I said, “Sorry”.
- Your eyes…
____________- Again. Don’t be boring.
- Before asking, get them yourself!
____________________________- Get what?
- Real eyes.
___________- Realize? And what?
_____________________________- I thought
After a hit like that you’d feel bad too,
Let alone you could lose one or two.
- What ‘one or two’?
__________________- Things that must be real!
- What things?
____________- Eyes!
___________________- What? Ha-ha! Oh dear!