Mario Benedetti        -translated by Carlos Reyes
	12 Haiku   I would like for the year to begin every Saturday   * there is no joy more joyful than the prologue to joy   * how they would laugh the four cardinal points if they were five   * when we're not around the humor of doubt will be lost   * one doesn't play with the truth -- one plays with the lie   * in reason the only doubts that enter are those with keys   * the prisoner dreams something that always has the form of a key   * words that burn words that burn out words and nothing more   * I feel old but the thrush is young and provokes me   * the girlfriend thinks of silk sheets and of another curtain rising   * dedicatory: to her with discounts for her nakedness   * at the airport I bought a tango in the shop of good-byes