An Attentive Insect

Holub called it the club

Of Swifts, Goethes, Rimbauds,

Horatiuses, and

Death watch beetles, ha, but

Do all death watch beetles

Belong, or only some,

The chanting ones? Or just

The gifted ones? This one

Would like to know. No, no,

That was a joke. This one

Just wants to keep an eye

On death and not to join

Any poets’ club, not

Even one whose members

Count Miroslav Holub.