OPIARY

Life tastes to me like golden tobacco.

I have never done anything but smoke life.

After all of what use was it to me to have

Gone to the East and seen India and China?

The earth is similar and little

And there is only one way of living.

I pretended to study engineering.

I lived in Scotland. I visited Ireland.

My heart is a poor grandmother who goes about

Begging at the doors of Joy.

I am unfortunate by primogeniture.

The gipsies stole my luck.

Perhaps I shall not even find near death

A place to shelter me from my cold.

And I was a child like other people.

I was born in a Portuguese province,

And have met English people

Who say I speak English perfectly.