Bonzai Aphrodite

Para escribir este poema leí muchísimas letras de canciones de Tom Waits y escogí las frases que más me gustaban, mi idea era hacer un poema utilizando únicamente sus propias palabras. Finalmente los primeros dos versos y el penúltimo ("excepto por la frase grapefruit moon") son completamente míos, y los siguientes son frases (algunas modificadas) de canciones de Tom Waits. Obviamente el título del poema, Bonzai Aphrodite, es también el título de una de sus mejores canciones, en mi opinión.


Bonzai Aphrodite

Dear Thomas,
you know that I can be
reckless and selfish,
so cruel I can go
as good as I can come.

I was born bad, so bad,
I can take a lover’s love
and let my body feel his touch,
while my heart is nowhere to be found.

I admit that I’m no angel,
and I admit that I’m no saint,
so I begged you to end it
but I guess we’ll never change.

I am always so impulsive
and you never talk to strangers,
I’m still jumping out of windows
and you still like to sleep alone.

But oh Thomas when I hear you
something breaks and cuts inside:
It's your melodies that haunt me,
under that big yellow moon.

When I hear your raspy crooning
and the piano has been drinking,
all I want is to be you Venus,
your own Bonzai Aphrodite.