--- K A R M E L O   C .  I R I B A R R E N

translated by Mark Ostrowski


You wanted sincerity above
all else.  That between 
us, you said, there would 
never be perfidies
or secrets.  That doubt
would never settle in our 
hearts.  You wanted sincerity,
at any price.  And as far as I
know, that is all I did,
be sincere, when I told you 
that I had spent a night
with your friend.  So now I 
don't know what to make of 
these insults, or these rabid 
looks, or these tears.  Sincerely,
I don't know who you think you are.