International Incidents

    1.

    Wang Ping asks if

    we went to a seder

    last night

    She did，

    in Minneapolis

    No， I say， we‘re not

    observant

    as though we constantly

    overlook details

    2.

    The teachers in the lounge

    crowd around the

    Swedish visitor

    You must be very proud

    one of them beams

    to be Swedish

    She has no idea

    what that means

    She says，

    I don‘t dislike

    being Swedish

    3.

    Who‘s ever met a Bulgarian？

    he would shout in the bar

    Then one night

    two homely blond sisters

    smiled and said

    We are Bulgarians！

    They smiled for two weeks

    then went away forever