Scandinavian Girls

[Xavier Keyet]

When I first got here
I strolled, looked
on all these faces

I'd been told that
Everybody in Scandinavia
Had brains like Ingmar Bergman
Looking like Greta Garbo

I wondered where
All these beautiful blond
Deep sad thinkers
Dwelled

But the girls were brave
Black silk stockings
False brown legs
Pretending they were not
in Moscow