The Poetry of Rodrigo Villegas

Upon Registering at the Nord Hotel in Bucharest

"Is that how people write in America?"
"In Romania", he went on "We are taught to write quite rapidly"

"No sir," was my reply
"Most Americans don't write as slow as I
Most Americans write very fast
But you won't find too many of them
'Cause the brighter type Americans
Don't come to Romania
They all go to Paris"

I started to leave
But turned to him again and said
"I misspell a lot of words, too."