30727 - The orange juice

N. Lygeros
Translated from Greek by Athina Kehagias and Theodoros Tsiamitas

The orange juice
was waiting
for the visitors
for so long
when the other one
was gone,
because
they didn’t want
to see just
an old widow,
therefore we
drank it
so it wouldn’t
always be
the same one
since society
had reached its limits
and only humanism
endured the pain
due to continuity.