Absurde Loqui
by Jeff Provine
Bondiggo taun freo
Oter nahey wobnab
Motshi poggin ub vaun robshob poush yoney vigo
Nonakku vin chimtao
Bondiggo taun freo
Pattin mo con sta
Quintith lono macklo
Ah em nonli tis nis onshon min klinno bithna
Bans avav yev forya
Pattin mo con sta
Ju simmin fu yu
Swinin tchure ah noza
Rigmon tonoy sov nab moenoe flin rivven snimno
Zonitsin yun wanvoo
Ju simmin fu yu
(Note: Absurde loqui is Latin meaning, “to speak nonsense”. The words of the poem are nonsense and have no translation. They were chosen for their senseless sounds reminiscent of foreign languages such as dialects from Northern Europe, Native America, and East Asia, thus creating an illusion a poem written in another language when it is, in reality, nonsense.)