Qizi
CHARME
On the street near the gate to our compound
a car without a rear mirror
takes up a parking space
one or two years now,
all covered with dust.
People say traffic control
has been informed several times.
The car is still there.
One day I saw
someone had drawn
two characters:
自由, “freedom”.
That car had aquired some kind of charme.
In a few days
it evaporated.
5/16/18 (revised)
Translated by MW, January 2019
标签： car, characters, compound, control, dust, 起子, freedom, history, memory, NPC, parking, poetry, Qizi, space, traffic, 新世紀詩典
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