Po latach eliminacji bezwartościowych osobników
Powstał wreszcie gatunek który odżywiał się opakowaniami
Po czipsach, z przyjemnością oglądał reklamy
Maści na hemoroidy i transmisje z zamieszek na Marsie
Uwielbiał spacery z sąsiadem na smyczy
Rozmnażał się wirtualnie przez lajkowanie
Kochał dorodne piksele i poranny smog
Na szczęście Bóg nie miał z tym nic wspólnego
Born in Gdańsk in 1953, Tadeusz Dziewanowski was involved in Polish street theater as both a writer and performer during the 1970s, and was a cofounder of the Gdańsk-area creative group, Tawerna Psychonautów (The Tavern of the Psychonauts), in the 1980s. More recently, he has been a poet and translator from English. His first book of poetry, Siedemnaście tysięcy małpich ogonów (Seventeen Thousand Monkey Tales), appeared in 2009, and his poetry, reviews, and translations from English appear regularly in the Polish literary journal Topos.
Aaron Fischer worked for forty years as a print and online editor for newspapers and magazines. His poems have appeared in the American Journal of Poetry, Briar Cliff Review, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Five Points, Hudson Review, Naugatuck River Review, and elsewhere. He won the 2020 Prime Number Magazine Awards for Poetry, as well as the Laureates’ Choice from the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest for 2019 and 2021.