b to (byla) basia
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		oj, nieszczesny, oj, nieutulony w zalu
		jak tak mozna nieopatrznie utracic te strone
		uszy odmrozone, jeszce, palce pokruszone, no zdaza sie,
		ale wyrwac i oddac na notki z notesika ta naj naj naj?
		ta na b?  az zal dupe sciska, chodzcie ludzie, patrzcie
		sobie na kretyna z bliska.  no, tak precyzyjniej,
		ze srodmiescia.  miales chamie zapisane pod b.
		ostal ci sie jeno w.


			Marek Lugowski
			21 wrzesien 1998
			Chicago, Illinois


		b is (no longer) for babs
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		oh, the unlucky you, oh, dear, so suffering the blues
		how could one manage to so haplessly lose the very page
		frostbitten ears, well maybe, fingers crushed, it happens,
		but to tear out and let go for scrap -- from the book the
		very most most most one?  the b?  gag me, i mean, like, 
		people, come and get it, come over for a looksie, a live
		moron from up close, more precisely, from downtown.  rube,
		you had it indexed under b.  now all that's left you is w.


			Marek Lugowski, translated from the Polish
			by Marek Lugowski
			21 September 1998
			Chicago, Illinois