What the poem was saying, I've forgotten
I had known what the poem was saying, but I've
forgotten
The poem was saying this, but this that the poem was
saying, I've forgotten
That the poem was saying this, is this what the poem was
saying? If that's what the poem was saying, I've forgotten
Perhaps, without knowing what the poem was saying, as
I was saying the poem, (in the moment I stated the poem), I had
already forgotten
Yet, if that's what the poem was saying, I've forgotten
Now, when I say this poem, I don't know if I am saying
this poem,
because what the poem was saying, I've forgotten
That's why what this poem is saying is no longer really
what the poem was saying
and that I've forgotten

Translation: Rosmarie Waldrop, Jean-Jacques Poucel and John Fenoghen