中国大好き

Xiang Lianzi
JAPAN VISA

I hand over
my household registration,
my ID card.
my passport,
a certificate from my work
for how many years of employment,
how much I make every month,
how many days of vacation they gave me,
how much of that I’ll be spending abroad.

Proof that I own my apartment,
dirver’s licence,
bank certificate, signed and stamped
about my income this year
and over 100.000 in my my account.

It wasn’t easy, but someone
went for me to the people’s court
in another city 500 miles away
and copied
my divorce agreement
from 27 years ago.

My Shiba Inu,
pure Japanese breed,
secretly
went along after me,
also like some kind of
proof.

6/9/18
Translated by MW, Sept. 2018

标签： abroad, account, apartment, certificate, court, distance, divorce, documentation, dog, economy, history, Japan, law, life, marriage, memory, NPC, poetry, proof, situation, society, travel, visa, work, 新世纪詩典, 湘莲子

This entry was posted on 九月 7, 2018 at 6:55 下午 and is filed under 2010s, 2018, 20th century, 21st century, July 2018, June 2018, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.