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zilcrino
le do zilcrino
tu’a do co’u jimpe ge’ecu’idai 2001
In Lojban.
The joke of the haiku is that it is virtually untranslatable.
“Zilcrino” means something like “green thing for which greenness is
not an applicable concept.”
“Ge’ecu’idai” means “you must feel (dai)
an unspecified emotion (ge’e) to a neutral degree (cu’i).”
My interpretive translation into an English haiku:
“Your Ideal of green/no longer understands you./But what do you care?”
The month of composition has been lost, but I have documented that
the year was 2001.
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