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From Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something. Published by ECW Press in 2014. Paul Vermeersch is a poet, editor and teacher. His work has been a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the K.M. Hunter Artist Award and the Trillium Book Award. He lives in Toronto.

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Filter Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” through several random languages in free translation software, and then back into English.

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Call it “Tea Has Been.”

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Twice, leaving the yellow tree,

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I’m sorry, I cannot move.

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And to the passenger, long will I stay for a while

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Searching

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For where a band can keep weed

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After the concert, with the excdeption of

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Some necessities, and it cannot be

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That this is grass, and it’s all used up.

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Not

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That this isn’t exactly the same thing and the price is too,

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And in the morning also, and

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The leaves are.

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Oh, I kept the first day once!

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When you know how to do it,

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I’ll be back, no doubt about it.

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I say this with a sigh,

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Forever after.

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,

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I have travelled a little.

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What’s the difference.

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