Beautiful Youth

The mouth of the girl who had lain long in the rushes

looked so nibbled.

When they opened her chest, her esophagus was so holey.

Finally in a bower under the diaphragm

they found a nest of young rats.

One little thing lay dead.

The others were living off kidneys and liver

drinking the cold blood and had

had themselves a beautiful youth.

And just as beautiful and quick was their death:

the lot of them were thrown into the water.

Ah, will you hearken at the little muzzles’ oinks!