O the codes of poetry are broken
By those who want to desecrate the Word.
All I hear now is doggerel or
Even worse: crass, sentimental bullshit.
I hate to see such wilful destruction
Of what was once deemed such a noble art.
It seems that we now live in a doomed age,
That courts the popular, but not the great.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem