Another one by Jean-Pierre Restif:

TRADUIT AU AMERICAIN

Joseph Cornell was a Christian Scientist, as was
James Schuyler's mother. How can a Surrealist
be a Protestant? In France
We don't understand Protestantism very well
Despite Gide and Barthes. We are unmoved by it.
Was Beckett a Protestant?
I ask Jonathan about it, my American translator
and friend. He shrugs his shoulders, as though to say
Protestantism is boring. How can he think that?
He gives me a book of Ron Padgett to read,
My favorite American poet; its title is in French.
Why is Ron Padgett your favorite American poet,
asks Jonathan? He taught me imperfection,
I respond. French poetry is too boring, too perfect.
Is Ron Padgett a protestant? Jonathan doesn't know...