/            mandolin as the, "neu-banjo"?
say that
and the people look up,
attempting to hawk-eye
                           their foreheads
with the inquiry:
        the **** are you talking about?
spreschen was,            
                                vas spreschen?!
mandolin is the new banjo
   element of celtic-gypsy derivatives?!
now? now you have a surreal
problem on your hands...
  banjo contra mandolin?
   you mean that squiggly line "in between"?
"somehow"
                   confiscating yet
                 surmißing the two as the same?
ever plaid a mandolin outside a window
looking up at a lass, *******?!
              no banjo can act-out playing
that heart...
                                 birth, roma, hearth!

sent her to south-america to remind
me of my projects.                                          /