Unnamed Events

1
Absolutely impossible.
2
Not at all possible.
3
Impossible.
4
Perhaps, at some point.
5
Sometime.
6
Later.
7
Not yet.
8
Not now.
9
And not now.
10
And not now.
11
Perhaps, soon.
12
It could be soon.
13
Really soon.
14
Perhaps earlier than expected.
15
Quite soon.
16
Just about.
17
Now.
18
Pay attention.
19
Here.
20.
Well, that’s about all.
21.
That’s it.

Lev Rubinstein, translated by Philip Metres and Tatiana Tulchinsky
Unnamed Events is from Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Selected Poems of Lev Rubinstein (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2004).