This poem is taken from PN Review 78, Volume 17 Number 4, March - April 1991.
Balancing Acts: a small drama in three scenesSEAMUS
SHELAGH
EAMONN
DONOVAN
Scene One
SEAMUS: Traditore, traduttore - spare us!
Of course the harsh Italian makes good
sense
Though nothing but an easy rigmarole.
Translator/traitor, yes; but how if we
Reversed the proposition? Treachery
Would come to seem a civilised
occupation,
Facilitating traffic over frontiers,
Bringing what's dark to light (by selling
secrets).
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