Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks

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    <strong>Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks</strong>

    All those mehere inside,

    when she came in totally naked.

    They had been drinking: they began to spit.

    Ne<s></s>wly e from the river, she knew nothing.

    She was a mermaid who had lost her way.

    The insults flowed down her gleaming flesh.

    Obsities drowned her gol?des.

    Not knowing tears, she did not we>藏书网</a>ep tears.

    Not knowing clothes, she did not have clothes.

    They blaed her with burnt corks and cigaretbbr>..</abbr>te stubs,

    and rolled around laughing oavern floor.<u>.9９ｌｉb.</u>

    She did not speak because she had no speech.

    Her eyes were the colour of distant love,

    her twin arms were made of white topaz.

    Her lips moved, silent, in a coral light,

    and suddenly she went out by that door.

    Entering the river she was ed,

    shining like a white stone in the rain,

    and without looking back she swam again

    swam towards emptiness, swam towards death.

    <strong>Pablo Neruda</strong>

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