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<strong>The</strong> only problem was that I didn’t speak <strong>Polish</strong>. Google translate, you mother<br />

bitch, to the rescue. I love our time, we really do live in the blessed age.<br />

So I tried to remember what I’d learnt in school. I remembered Mrs. West an<br />

angry old drunk who always remained seated, never writing on the blackboard<br />

or later whiteboard all the years she taught me.<br />

I remembered Shakespeare, sonnets and iambic pentameter. I wondered if I<br />

could do rhyming couplets or this thing called a haiku. I knew whatever it was<br />

in English didn’t matter so much because once in the translator it would sound<br />

strange. I started out simple.<br />

Roses are red<br />

Violets are blue<br />

I am 13<br />

So here is a mix CD for you!<br />

I popped it into the translator then opened a second page and translated it back<br />

to make sure I wouldn’t end up with some garbled nonsense. Luckily it gave me<br />

back the same simple verses that I had just written.<br />

Time to get down to some romancing.<br />

You are my day and night,<br />

My everything I want in life.

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