名人诗歌|The Dream of the Just

by Dana Gelinas （Translated by Jen Hofer）

Next to the fourteen excellent reasons

to make February the month of love，

which serve to advertise the best mattresses¹

for double beds， queen or king size

I read， just as in the heyday²

of colonialism：

The soldiers ask the indigenous³

people to transport them on horses；

if there aren't any， they force them

to carry them on their backs.