Of course, I'll go back

I'll go back to get myself this T-shirt,

a few others, printed in a small dusty office

in Oakam, Dakar, with a machine purchased

with ten dollar bills that spew from my 

computer monitor several times per hour.

I'll go back to Dakar to get this T-shirt,

and others, to smell the fish in the market,

to swim in the sea and drink ateya 

with dark men, only their teeth gleaming

at dusk, we laughed, and we will laugh again.

Yes, I'll go back to get myself this T-shirt

and a new dress; I'll jump on the back of a

motorcycle and dart between cars, my eyes

closed and praying

I'll go back and get myself this T-shirt, to eat

che bu jeun in small restaurants and I'll wonder

how I could think that I would never go back.

Of course, I'll go back.