The steamliner Poem by Jacques Roubaud

The steamliner climbed to the fifth floor and cried:
toot! toot! toot!
The moon did not reply
The steamliner climbed to the sixth floor and cried:
toot! toot! toot!
The moon did not reply
The steamliner climbed to the ninth floor and cried:
toot! toot! toot!
The moon did not reply
Steamliners do not sail from floor to floor
Steamliners sail the seas and the oceans
They go on seas and they cry
toot! toot! toot!
toot! toot! toot!
toot! toot! toot!
And the moon does not reply