The man misheard me and believed
I'd said 'sixty bees of separation'
instead of 'six degrees...' and he
wanted to know 'what the hell'
I was talking about-what did I
mean by sixty bees of separation?
I went with a mondegreenish
improvisation and said that
according to a South American
legend, sixty bees once got
separated from a magical hive
in the Amazon Basin. Ever since
then, the bees have been
circling the globe, searching
in vain for their indigenous nest.
I said according to the myth,
if all sixty bees locate the hive
and end the separation,
the waters of the Amazon
will turn to honey. 'Oh, '
said the man, 'it's just some
legend, then.' 'Yes, ' I said.
'It is the Legend of the Sixty
Bees of Separation.'
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem