X.[You say] Poem by Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl

You say:
'I am rich and have
become wealthy and need nothing "


Yet you know not that you're the wretched one,
miserable, poor, blind, and naked

oopsadaisy causes mayhem
bare-assed in Bethlehem

oral-sex is thought to have originated in
chinese mythology

Prostitutes don't just get lucky

they get pushed

Translated by Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl