Conversations like this

Hello to the fellows.
It has been a long time we spoke
Time made the changes
But absence revealed it to us.

Hello to the poems we wrote yesterday,
That made us madmen on streets;
Counting fingers, reading billboards, scribbling
Papers for just one piece we were asked to submit.

Hello to the captains and the chief,
That caused our “poe-trees” to sprout new leaves.

Tochi