May 13, 2003
(a retired teacher's daily exercise/lesson translated)

Under the sun
and under the moon
an ant went walking
from the nest

Until she reached a fountain
and, tired, stopped to rest

Ah, what beautiful clear water!
And as she tried to drink
she drowned and died.

Point of this tale:

1. Better to live dying of thirst?

2. Do not leave your nest exploring other vistas?

(Metes aqui tu punto:) Or: write you own point now ... "glo-po"

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UNA ORMIGA

dia de los muertos

and tho' she stayed away from his nose

the ant, who went walking, failed

to say out from under the anteater's toes

so from his muddy pawprint pool,
her carcass, he bailed

just as the puma licked his chops
old anteater tried to dittybop

but froze in his tracks when puma wailed

for climbing up puma's tail
was a more fierce bunch of foes

and what that ant colony did
with puma and anteater -- who knows!

(May 14, 2003) (c) 2003 Rennie Lorca