Gu Juxiu
SHOULD YOU LAUGH OR CRY?
Disinfectant alcohol, distributed against the virus,
some people drink it as liquor.
Street committee worker stands at the door,
shouts inside.
Old guy sits
on his old broken bed,
drags on a cigarette.
Drunk as a skunk, waves his hands,
No hospital! No one pumps out his stomach!
Just keeps muttering,
“Fuck little thing, not worth the money!“
5/30/20
Translated by MW, June 2020
Wang Yun
FEBRUARY
My wife taught me not to touch the elevator,
but to bring a few seeds when I went out.
When I was done I would throw them into the grass by the door.
Lockdown days went on longer and longer,
I had thrown away seeds over one dozen times.
January passed into February,
every time I threw an arc I would think
maybe in March we will have
a patch of sunflowers coming out.
2/20/20
Translated by MW, June 2020
Picture by Wang @oa___aob
MAKE AMERICA DIM
Make America dim
Make America diminished
Make America diminished capacity
Make America diminished credibility
Make America diminished trust
Make America diminished opportunity
Make America diminished equality
Make America diminished
Make America dim
Go on
MW 6/3/20
Picture by Wang @oa___aob
ALL SORTS
all sorts of factors and factories
all sorts of tractors
all sorts of actors
all sorts of dorks
all kinds of assorted windshield wipers
all sorts of snipers
maybe some kind ones
kind to their weapons
and also to people
something
in all sorts of people
when you listen
to water, to wind
when you feel the sun
in the woods
when you find
something to share
bare for the joy
when we walk
anywhere
in paths and trees
in cemeteries, in streets and fields
sharing ourselves
with the light and the night
within and around
each other
amen
MW Pentecost, May 31st, 2020
RUNNING OUT
I am running out of days
everyone runs out
in the end
but don’t worry it’s not that bad
world doesn’t stop
for everyone at the same time
it’s the end of the month
the 31st
and I promised to finish a book
months ago years ago
I guess this is the poem
I wrote the night before
not last night in my head
before I went to sleep
and then I forgot it
MW Pentecost, May 31st, 2020
RAIN
It is raining
the wind is cold
last day of May first day of June
Pentecost
Mostly end of the virus
for Austria and around
hopefully
wish I could
be with you
wherever you are
hope to see you soon
take care
MW Pentecost, May 31st, 2020
祝贺
今天推特
大家都转
祝贺
美国太空人
离开地球
时间选得好！
2020.5.31
Picture by Baidiucao
Xiang Lianzi
TANGLED
Someone has told me
I should use my profession and set up a stall on the ground
Maybe I could make over three hundred thousand per month,
much more than with regular work at the hospital.
I am moved at heart,
but tangled up too.
Should I give shots at my stall,
or should I tell people their fortune
or should I interpret their dreams?
Stupid!
It’s TCM, stupid!
I have to offer Traditional Chinese Medicine!
If anyone says I am doing it wrong,
I call the cops and say he slanders
and insults TCM.
6/4/20
Translated by MW, June 2020
Fan Kexin
A DAY
This is a day when everyone outside is wearing a mask
This is a day of restaurants closed
This is a day of everyone rushing back home
This is a day of walking and keeping your hands in your pockets
This is also a day
of an old man
by the side of the road
without a mask
holding up frozen red hands
with a sign
against abortion
Boston, 2020
Translated by MW in June 2020
日子
范可心
这是一个人人都戴口罩出门的日子
这是一个各家餐厅关门的日子
这是一个大家都涌着回家的日子
这是一个大家都插手口袋走路的日子
这也是一个
路边站着一个
不戴口罩
露出冻得通红的双手
举着
抗议人工流产
的牌子的老人
的日子
(写于波士顿)
Liu Ge
ZEN-FRÜHLING
In den Tagen wo kaum ein Mensch auftaucht
nach einem Regen
schwimmt eine grüngefiederte Ente
auf dem Asphalt
und ruht sich aus.
12. April 2020, am nördlichen Stadtrand von Boston
Übersetzt von MW im Juni 2020
Shen Haobo
AMERICA RUSHES INTO THE STREETS
America holds down America
America oppresses America
America pleads with America
America despises America
America kills America
America can’t breathe and dies
America cries for America
America rushes into the streets
America protests America
America burns America
America’s rockets shoot into the sky
America’s blacks take to the streets
Remember that time
We are all humans
Humans govern humans
Humans slaughter humans
Humans resist humans
Humans have dreams
Dreams soar up to the universe
Humans crave dignity
The greatest dignity
Called freedom & equality
The battle is not up in the sky
Always has been down in the streets
June 1st 2020
Translated by Martin Winter, 6/2/2020
美国冲上街头
沈浩波
.
美国摁住美国
美国压迫美国
美国哀求美国
美国漠视美国
美国杀死美国
美国窒息而死
美国哭喊美国
美国冲上街头
美国反抗美国
美国焚烧美国
美国火箭上天
美国黑人上街
记住这个时刻
我们都是人类
人类统治人类
人类屠杀人类
人类反抗人类
人类拥有梦想
梦想翱翔宇宙
人类渴望尊严
最伟大的尊严
名叫自由平等
战场不在天上
从来都在街头
2020.6.1
美国冲上街头(修改)
.
美国摁住美国
美国压迫美国
美国哀求美国
美国漠视美国
美国杀死美国
美国窒息而死
美国哭喊美国
美国冲上街头
美国反抗美国
美国焚烧美国
美国火箭上天
美国黑人上街
记住这个时刻
我们都是人类
人类屠杀人类
人类反抗人类
人类追求自由
人类渴望平等
战场不在天上
从来都在街头
2020.6.1
Hai Jing
WISDOM TOOTH
Lung disease lockdown,
couldn’t go anywhere.
Held down for over three weeks,
held it until a wisdom tooth grew.
2/17/20
Translated by MW on June 2nd, 2020
Zhang Zhizhen
LUNAR NEW YEAR, VIRUS IS HERE
Standing at the intersection,
all four roads empty without any person.
Bus 846 comes along,
but there is only
the driver and one single passenger.
Wah, that one has booked the whole bus.
Now there comes another one,
it’s a #3.
It has only the driver.
Ai-uh, this time there is no-one at all
who could do the booking.
1/25/20
Translated by MW on June 1st, 2020
Zi Yi
CARSICK DOG
Little Chur getting carsick
confounds me. I thought
only people could have that.
Papa says, maybe the earth
also is a carsick dog,
this year she went out, forgot taking her pills,
now there‘s an earthquake, there’s a volcano
and there is COVID-19.
4/1/20
Translated by MW, May 2020
Ma Xiaofeng
IN MEMORIAM
He carries the casket
of his former wife
who died in a car-accident,
and in his marriage notice
he changes divorced into bereaved.
Translated by MW, May 2020
Mogan Bixian
ALIVE
I am against holding a meeting,
but here I am shooting my mouth off.
I am against not wearing a mask
and don’t hold that back.
These years
I always hold it till there’s a classic,
one statement
ruining my future.
I live how I like it,
so what!
Just like I write
how I love to,
exactly like that,
even though these poems
won’t ever take any prize
for their form.
Translated by MW, May 2020
Yang Yujun
MY WORRY HAS NOT STOPPED BY AS SCHEDULED
You didn’t come,
so my sin was not established.
One time you were laid up,
brain haemorrhage, hospital.
Another time it was volcano ash,
planes cancelled.
Then it was bugs on the vines,
red wine tasting event got postponed.
You said fermented fruits
are no longer forbidden.
I think there is more flavour
in waiting than is tasting.
—
In the end my reputation
was saved
by a virus.
5/11/20
Translated by MW, May 2020
Chen Minghua
MOURNING
Time flies like light passing through blinds to the second shelf on the first book rack by the window, an old alarm clock between a few books of poetry, lingering on the second hand, as big as “Driftwood” by Luo Fu, but I still browse like an impatient youth to verify yellowing memories the umpteenth time.
3/18/19
Translated by MW, May 2020
Zhang Mingyu
HOW MUCH
The virus is rampant,
we are stuck at home.
Mother says,
how much time has it been
since we two
have been together
for such a long time?
I try to think back,
before I was 15
and went away
to teaching school.
2/17/20
Translated by MW, May 2020
Nan Ren
20 BILLION YUAN
An official from the civil aviation board said,
because of the virus,
they reimbursed tickets
for over 20 billion yuan.
All these banknotes should fly in the sky,
now they are down in the dust,
they change into rice, pasta and oil,
change into water fee, electricity fee, gas fee,
change into masks, toilet paper, 84-disinfectant
Some even change into
hospital admittance fee, medicine expense, funeral costs.
From now on they’ll never fly anymore.
3/3/20
Translated by MW, May 2020
ONE
One month ago, a little more, less than two
the world went quiet.
It had become quiet in China before
accompanied by all sorts of noise.
But when it arrived
it was precious.
There is strife here too,
who caused it to spread,
who didn’t close
ski entertainment.
But on the whole
Austria
or any place actually
became like never before,
except in or after the war,
and that was very different,
not that I was around.
But no Nazis, for one.
Yeah, maybe right after the war,
they were also in hiding.
Anyway, in times of peace,
only one headline:
Look Out For Youse,
something like that,
look out for yourself and each other,
but in one word.
Schaut auf Euch.
And we were lucky.
Take care!
MW May 2020
A Yu
MASKS! MASKS! MASKS!
In an Iranian movie
I see masses of people in demonstrations,
suddenly I exclaim:
They didn’t wear face masks back then!
Then I pick up my phone,
go on looking for face masks,
until my wife loudly repeats:
Veils! Veils! Veils!
Then I finally get it.
2/17/2020
Translated by MW, May 2020
A Yu
MUNDSCHUTZ! MUNDSCHUTZ! MUNDSCHUTZ!
In einem iranischen Film
seh ich Menschenmengen in Demonstrationen.
Ich ruf unwillkürlich aus,
die haben doch früher keinen Mundschutz getragen!
Dann nehm ich das Handy,
such weiter nach Masken,
bis meine Frau laut wiederholt:
Schleier! Schleier! Schleier!
Dann reagier ich erst.
Übersetzt von MW im Mai 2020
Pan Xichen
QINGMING
Why did our ancestors
give today
give our departed
such a pure and clean word?
Could it be? Could what we call
the nether world
actually be more bright and clear?
What I want to say,
on such a particular day:
isn’t it time,
if you have done wrong, to apologize;
or if you haven’t, to grieve in silence?
4/4/20
Translated by MW, May 2020
Zhou Sese
NORTHEAST SNOW STORM
The woman inside
pushes with all her might
but cannot open the door
to her man outside,
whose eyebrows are white.
He pulls up his legs from the snow
and tries to walk on.
Looking back he sees on the roof
how his wife
climbs out of the smokestack.
The whole Northeast
has added three feet.
4/21/20
Translated by MW, May 2020
Hong Zhu
YERPA
Attachment is hard, you want to break free and you can’t.
Laughter, then crying, crying, then laughs.
Is laughing better? Not as high as the mountain or small as the moon.
You are still attached, you want to forget and you can’t.
Would be good if you could, good and gone.
Gone but not gone? Be good, leave it unfinished?
Attachment is ever unfinished.
Because you want too much, and receive not enough,
you have trouble. Black hair can be cut,
trouble cannot.
Attachment is understood but not gone, because you don`t want it
or cause you don’t dare? You can`t give it up,
or don`t get what you want?
You have one hundred thousand great peaks, I only want
a temple so small you don’t know it is there.
You have the ends of the world, I only want
ten steps of green grass.
Translated by MW, May 2020
Hong Zhu, orig. name Wang Jun, born in May 1967 in Nanjing, died 3/18/20 in Nanjing. Chief editor of China Federation Literature press. Famous high school poet, many awards.《新诗典》小档案：洪烛（1967年~2020年3月18日），原名王军，生于南京，1979年进入南京梅园中学，1985年保送武汉大学，1989年分配到北京，全国文学少年明星诗人，原中国文联出版社文学编辑室主任。洪烛曾出版有诗集《南方音乐》《你是一张旧照片》《我的西域》《仓央嘉措心史》《仓央嘉措情史》等[2]。洪烛是上世纪八十年代的全国文学少年明星，当时还在读中学的他就在《语文报》、《星星》、《鸭绿江》、《诗刊》、《儿童文学》、《少年文艺》等一系列报刊发表大量诗歌散文，十几次获得《文学报》等全国性征文奖，在全国中学校园赢得一定的知名度。洪烛因病于2020年3月18日在南京去世。
Yi Bing
DISTANCE
That night father
grabbed for the night pot under the bed,
fell down head first,
never got up again.
My brother and I slept next to him
less than half a metre away on makeshift beds,
snored through till morning.
5/1/20
Translated by MW, May 2020
Zhang Yibing, pen name Yi Bing, born in the 1970s, comes from Xiangyuan in Shanxi. Has published poetry in many journals and through various online portals. 《新诗典》小档案：姓名：张一兵，笔名：一兵。山西襄垣人。70后，诗歌作品散见于《中国口语诗年鉴》（2019年卷）、《山东诗歌》、《佛城诗歌》、《角落》等报刊杂志。近年来开始口语诗写作。有部分诗被《中国诗人微刊》、《大河诗刊》、《诗快报》 等网络平台选用。
WHY PEOPLE VOTE TRUMP
(and why De Niro hates him, he wants this only in movies)
Because
He doesn’t play by the rules.
And Russia and China
And most other people
Cannot always afford
To play by the rules.
And when money talks
And the Mafia beckons
You cannot afford
To play by the rules.
MW May 2020
NEXT THING IN AUSTRIA
That little valley
Which is only accessible from Germany
Will hold elections
By holding up sabers
The results will be valid
For the whole country
But only if they guarantee
To vote for the chancellor
The Greens agree either way
Long Green explanations
Forthcoming
For sure
MW May 2020
Lan Bing
RETURN
From the foot of the mountain all the way to the top
no trace of a person,
no sound of a bird.
Mighty snow
made the world very silent.
Sky and earth deserted.
I hoped to find a companion,
even a stranger.
But in the season for fires,
no furnace was lit.
Alone going up,
alone coming down,
I could only trace my own footprints.
12/3/19
Translated by MW, May 2020
Lan Bing, orig. name Zhao Ruili, from Tianshui in Gansu. Teacher, member of the Half Past Five Poetry Society. 《新诗典》小档案：蓝冰，本名赵瑞丽，甘肃天水人，教师，五点半诗群成员。
Mo Gao
BICYCLE STORY
Old Zhang from our company has been riding his bicycle
to and from work for two years
with great results.
Fatty liver high uric acid high blood fat what not,
no need to worry at all anymore.
Eating together over the weekend, I say congratulations,
his wife has a dour look on her face.
“Nothing to get jealous about,
day after day on that old bike,
ruining his prostate.”
Old Zhang says not a word,
keeps picking up food.
5/9/2020
Translated by MW, May 2020
Mo Gao, orig. name Xiao Leng, comes from Mianyang in Sichuan, works in a company. Has published poetry in The Star, Poetry Monthly, Sichuan Literature, Shandong Literature etc. Started studying colloquial poetry and Yi Sha’s theory recently during the virus crisis, tries his hand daily now.
《新诗典》小档案：莫高，本名肖棱，四川绵阳人，现在企业供职。之前曾在《星星诗刊》、《诗歌月刊》、《四川文学》、《山东文学》等刊物发表诗歌。疫情期间接触口语诗，学习伊沙“口语诗伦理”后，茅舍顿开，现在每天都在坚持练手感。
Gu Xiyu
LOST
An uncle rides a motorcyle
and hits a grandma.
The uncle flees in panic,
the grandma gets no treatment and dies.
I think the uncle will come back in the end,
because his heart fell down here.
Translated by MW, May 2020
Gu Xiyu, born in October 2010, goes to school in Yangzhou city.
《新诗典》小档案：顾惜语，女，出生于2010年10月，现就读于扬州市江都区实验小学三年级21班。陕西省少儿诗社社员，获得首届“长嘉”全国少儿诗歌大赛提名奖，全国网络作文大赛获得二等奖。部分作文和诗歌在“拙原工作室”、“江南传媒”、“唐小诗诗社”、“诗锚”等网络平台发表。入选2019年度《中国100名优秀少年诗人》。 在唐小诗诗社“眼睛”和“春”主题童诗中，荣获最佳作品奖。数篇诗歌，作文和诗歌多次在《江都日报》 、《芦柴花》、《学语文之友》、《农村孩子报》、《河南青年时报》、《孩子选孩子的诗》《童诗周历》等诗歌选本或杂志上发表。
Li Zeyu
CORPSE
After getting up,
Mama rips down
yesterday’s page
from the calendar,
rolls it into a ball,
throws it in the bin.
We treat all corpses
that way in our house,
so this is
no big deal.
Translated by MW, May 2020
Ai Mi
LETHAL WEAPON
Faced with three or four competitors,
how did I manage to win my wife?
It was because one day
at six in the morning
I was already at the door to her dormitory,
to work out at parallel bars.
When they showed up for work
and said oh, Mr. Ai, so early,
I just smiled,
pointing behind
to her dormitory,
said I had never left
since yesterday.
Translated by MW, May 2020
Ai Mi
TÖDLICHE WAFFE
Gegen drei oder vier Konkurrenten,
wie hab ichs geschafft, meine Frau zu gewinnen?
Ich war eines Tages
schon um sechs in der Früh
vor der Tür von ihrem Wohnheim
beim Morgensport am doppelten Barren.
Als die Leute zur Arbeit kamen,
sagten sie Herr Ai, heute so früh!
Ich lächelte nur,
deutete
auf ihr Wohnheim
und sagte:
Ich bin seit gestern hier.
Übersetzt von MW im Mai 2020
Ai Mi, born 1978 in Mianyang, Prov. Sichuan. Lives in Jinan, Shandong, works in education. Read two books by Yi Sha and started to try writing poems like that.
《新诗典》小档案：艾米：1978年人，祖籍四川绵阳，现居山东济南，从事教育工作。读了伊沙的两本诗集《车过黄河》和《鸽子》，感觉这样写诗很棒，开始尝试口语诗写作。Ai Mi, kommt aus Mianyang in Sichuan, lebt in Jinan, Provinz Shandong. Arbeitet im Bildungssektor. Hat zwei Bücher von Yi Sha gelesen und wollte auch solche Gedichte schreiben. 
He Jin
1977
It was a beautiful time,
it was a fucking bad time.
We supposed-to-be-educated youths went off to exams
and more than half fell through.
If I had managed to fill in those two blanks,
I would have survived.
Who was Cao Xueqin?
Who was Qin Keqing?
Forward to now, Cao wrote Dream of the Red Chamber, everyone knows.
Qin Keqing, she’s one of 12 beauties
in the mystery novel,
the one most tight with Sister Feng.
In that blank space,
I drew a cow turd.
In the space for Cao Xueqin, because I was mad,
I wrote he was the third little girl
of old Cao
in our backyard.
2/10/20
Translated by MW, May 2020
He Jin, orig. name Jin Weixin, Muslim Hui nationality, born in the last lunar month of 1956. Published a story collection, one book of poetry and one book of essays. Poems and stories appeared in anthologies. In January 2018 he founded the poetry magazine Xiao Shi Jie (Small Verse World). He lives in Jilin city. 《新诗典》小档案：何金，原名金伟信，回族，1956年腊月出生。著有小说集《沉默的星空》、诗集《身体的宣言》、随笔集《平民天堂》。作品收入《中国口语诗年鉴》（2019年卷）、《中国回族文学通史·当代卷》。2018年1月创办《小诗界》诗刊，现居吉林市。
You Ruoxin
DOUBT
Every time
the director comes into our class
for inspection
our teacher always lets us
quickly sit down nicely.
No talking
eyes straight ahead.
Even now
I don‘t understand
why
we have to do this.
Why
can’t we say hello to
or embrace the director.
3/24/20
Translated by MW, May 2020
Liu Jian
IM FRÜHLING
Ein kleiner Bub
trägt seinen Mundschutz
untern am Kinn,
hält mit beiden Händen die Lenkstange,
einen Fuß auf dem Roller,
mit dem anderen Fuß taucht er schnell an,
rund um die Wohnhausanlage.
Er saust und saust!
Seine Mama
rennt daneben und schreit:
„Setz die Maske auf!
Du kommst noch um!“
Der kleine Bub kümmert sich nicht darum,
schneidet ihr Gesichter
die ganze Zeit und ruft:
„Ich sterbe nicht!“
März 2020
Übersetzt von MW im Mai 2020
Lu Zongbao
RATTENJAHR DER SEUCHE
Die ältere Generation der Familie,
die geben ihm einige hundert Yuan,
das darf er nicht ablehnen zum Mondneujahr.
Als sie gegangen sind,
nimmt er die Sprühflasche mit Alkohol
und desinfiziert
jeden einzelnen Schein.
15. März 2020
Übersetzt von MW im Mai 2020
Jiang Xuefeng
AUCH DAS IST DER SINN DES SCHREIBENS
5 Jahre nach dem Ende der Menschen
sind alle Straßen verschwunden,
besetzt von Gräsern, Sträuchen und Bäumen.
Nach 25 Jahren
sind die Kühlrohre des letzten Wasserkraftwerks
von Schnecken und Muscheln verstopft
und die Welt wird völlig dunkel.
Die Kakerlaken haben dann in den Küchen alles Verschimmelte aufgefressen
und fangen mit Büchern und Zeitungen an.
Am Ende bleibt kein Blatt Papier auf der Welt,
kein einziges Zeichen.
Das ist auch der Sinn des Schreibens,
– den Kakerlaken noch ein paar Bücher,
noch ein paar Tage Fressen zu lassen.
2020-03-07
Übersetzt von MW im Mai 2020
这也是写作的意义
蒋雪峰
人类灭亡五年后
所有的公路都会消失
被花草树木占领
二十五年后
最后一座水电站
散热管道被贝壳塞满
世界彻底黑暗
蟑螂吃光了厨房所有腐烂的食物
开始啃报纸和书籍
大地上不会剩下一张纸
一个字
这也是写作的意义
——多几本书给蟑螂
多留几天食物
Huang Kaibing
ZUM VERKAUF
Ich sag oft ich leb von meinen Zeichen,
in Wirklichkeit
hab ich bis heute nur wenige Blätter verkauft.
100 Yuan scheint schon zuviel.
88
66
Zustellung inklusive
fragt auch niemand an.
7. Mai 2020
Übersetzt von MW am 7. Mai 2020
《鬻》
黄开兵
我常自称卖字维生
实际上
迄今没卖出几幅
100元都嫌贵了
88
66
包邮
也无人问津
20200507
莫言下岭便无难，
赚得行人错喜欢。
正入万山圈子里，
一山放出一山拦。
杨万里诗
材质：特厚生宣
普通宿墨，羊毫大楷笔书写
尺寸：约70X30cm
Ma Jinshan
LIFE IS PRECIOUS INDEED
On the third day of the lunar new year,
he takes his wife
and goes to Tibet.
All his friends say:
“You have quite a nerve!
To go for a trip
at such a time!“
He doesn‘t answer for a while.
“My wife has terminal cancer,
it was her last wish
to go there
once more.“
2/1/20
Translated by MW, May 2020
Ma Jinshan
WERT DES LEBENS
Er fährt am dritten Tag des Mondjahres
mit seiner Frau
nach Tibet.
Alle Freunde sagen:
„Du traust dir zu viel!
In dieser Zeit
machst du eine Reise!“
Er sagt lange nichts.
„Meine Frau hat Krebs im Endstadium.
Es war ihr letzter Wusch,
dort noch einmal
hinzukommen.“
2020-02-01
Übersetzt von MW im Mai 2020
Bai Diu
MUNDSCHUTZ
In der Viruszeit
hat mein Sohn seinen 3M-Mundschutz
schon über einen Monat getragen,
den hat ihm damals ein Freund geschenkt,
als er Hangzhou verlassen hat.
Meine zwei Stück Mundschutz,
einen hab ich am achten Tag des neuen Mondjahres bekommen,
den zweiten am achtundzwanzigsten Tag.
Ich trag sie übereinander,
niemand teilt welche aus, nirgends kann man sie kaufen,
wir dürfen sie ja nicht verlieren.
Mein Bruder sagt
sein Chef hat viele Ressourcen,
eine Kiste Mundschutz war unterwegs,
gestern hat er um ein paar Stück angefragt.
Die Antwort war, die Kiste sei
in Guiyang requiriert worden.
2. März 2020
Übersetzt von MW im Mai 2020
Chun Sue
BOMBED
Kids from a certain internet site
used to moan all the time they wanted to die.
But once the danger really arrived,
haven’t seen one of them wanting to die anymore.
2/5/20
Translated by MW, May 2020
Chun Sue
FLIEGERANGRIFF
Die Kinder von einer Internetseite,
die reden täglich vom Sterben.
Sobald die Gefahr wirklich da ist,
will keiner mehr tot sein.
5. Februar 2020
Übersetzt von MW im Mai 2020
Hong Junzhi
THE STORY OF “THE SCREAM“ BY EDVARD MUNCH
Yesterday I had lunch
with the guy from The Scream
by Edvard Munch
where he stands on the bridge.
I asked him,
What happened to your ears?
He said it was the worst day
of the Corona virus in Norway.
His Mama was gravely ill
and he walked across the bridge to take care of her.
But on the bridge, right in the middle,
someone snatched his face mask away.
What you see now, he said,
how I frantically clutch
my hands to my ears
is because both my ears
had been cut off.
Translated by MW, May 2020
Wang Yiping
DISCOVERY OF AN ANGRY YOUNG MAN
My mobile phone weighs 16 grams,
it’s full of all kinds of data,
political theory,
philosophical research,
classical literature.
But only recently I have discovered,
my mom’s mobile weighs 128 grams,
and it has only my photo.
Translated by MW, April 2020
NICHT ÜBERRASCHT – 江湖海 Jianghu Hai
五月 24, 2020Jiang Huhai
NICHT ÜBERRASCHT
Jemand postet für eine Ausstellung internationaler Gedichte
im Viruskampf die Liste der eingeladenen AutorInnen.
Der erste Kommentar unten ist die Frage:
„Da ist Jian Ming dabei,
der ist doch schon voriges Jahr gestorben?“
Noch ein Kommentar:
„Wu An ist bald fünf Jahre tot,
hast du ihn gefragt ob er mitmacht?“
Ich les weiter und sage nichts.
Vor einigen Jahren bei einer Veranstaltung
hat eine Sprecherin der staatlichen Künstlervereinigung
verkündet: „Der große Dicher Ai Qing [Vater von Ai Weiwei, 1910-1996]
wird auch bei uns live davei sein!“
Als ich das gehört hab
hab ich kalten Schweiß gespürt.
Jetzt passiert mir das nicht mehr.
Wenn du mir heute sagst,
Konfuzius plant ein Buch der Lieder
gegen Corona bin ich überhaupt nicht überrascht.
März 2020
Übersetzt von MW im Mai 2020
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