The Imaginary Man, Nicanor Parra

The imaginary man
lives in an imaginary mansion
surrounded by imaginary trees
on the shore of an imaginary river

From the walls which are imaginary
hang old imaginary paintings
un-reparable imaginary cracks
that represent imaginary acts
performed in imaginary worlds
in imaginary times and places

Every afternoon imaginary afternoons
hop up the imaginary stairs
to look over the imaginary balcony
at imaginary scenery
that consists of an imaginary valley
surrounded by imaginary hills

Imaginary shadows come
by an imaginary road
singing imaginary songs
to the death of the imaginary sun

And on nights of the imaginary moon 

dream of the imaginary woman
who gave their imaginary love
and start to feel that same pain again
that same imaginary pleasure
and throbs again
the heart of the imaginary man.