20 October 2006

Immanuel Mifsud

[from Poetry Ireland Review #85]

The Mad People

In the electronic age every nutcase
with a laptop is writing a masterpiece.
They spend their nights locked up in chat rooms
and emerge with red eyes and love poems.


    Confidential Reports, Southword Editions, 2005,
    translated from the Maltese by Maurice Riordan

1 comment:

  1. This had me cracking up quite a bit :-D Thanks for posting it.

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