Sound advice from a tired friend:
Its good to cover an eye she says
as she sits and covers an eye, she says
head down on the table
cos she´s no longer able
to make sense of it all
cos she is muy cansada
it´s too hard this, she says
trying to speak, she says
in a language not her own
in a town so far from home
where people don´t wear seatbelts
and feed her endless pizza pie
it´s good to cover an eye
cos half of too-much
might be just enough to cope.
says I, both eyes wide and aching from the glare.
