“The Problems of Humanity” by Megan Pinto (poetry ’18)
An excerpt from”The Problems of Humanity” by Megan Pinto (poetry ’18), published by Four Way Review.
The Problems of Humanity
I thought we had solved them all, these problems of humanity:
how we die, and why, and who it is we ought to be.
I’ve learned to count to infinity, to touch my toes, to plug
my nose when I jump off diving boards; I know how to exhale
when waxing my body, how much is too much to drink
at parties, and that, when eating from a buffet
I must be first in line. If there is some part of me
I cannot educate, I’ll compensate with technology:
Google translate has gotten me through dates
with a Frenchman in Prague, an Armenian in Italy.
