中国大好き

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Mo Gao
EMPRESS DOWAGER TRUMP

When he said
“America first!“,
when he said
“No-one understands better than I“,
when he said
“Drink disinfectants to cure the virus!“;
when he withdrew from even more groups and assemblies,
when he put even more business and people from China
on sanctions lists;
I saw a shadow behind him,
of a dowager empress from the Qing dynasty.
I was thinking,
shouldn’t I remind folks in America,
but
wouldn’t they think I had idle concerns?

8/15/20
Translated by MW, November 2020

特朗普太后
莫高

当他说
“美国优先”
当他说
“没人比我更懂”
当他说
“喝消毒液可以治病”
当他宣布退出更多的群
当他把更多中国人和中国公司
纳入制裁名单
我在他身上看到
清朝一个太后的影子
我在想
要不要提醒一下美国人民
那么
他们会不会觉得我操空心

2020.8.15

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