NATIONAL DAY
This is Austria’s National Day.
You can stand in line
for a rather long time
to look inside.
It feels rather hollow.
You knew that before.
Most people are friendly,
guarding the power.
Rooms are old and tall.
Imperial times
are very remote.
Everyone knows
something unspeakable
was in between.
MW October 26, 2024
国庆
奥地利国庆
可以去排队
等一段看见
政府楼里面
感觉很空洞
你早都知道
人都还善良
权利的保安
天花板高上
皇帝时代
现在很遥远
谁都知道
难说的事
就在中间
2024.10
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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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发表在 2020, 20th century, 21st century, August 2020, Middle Ages, NOVEMBER 2020, NPC, poetry, Qing Dynasty, Translations, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
Ming Zhi
ME
I am so beautiful,
noble and tall.
I have so much money.
I am so clever,
lovely and cute,
naive and adorable,
I am so innocent.
My emotional competence is so high,
just like my IQ.
I am 100 % natural Liu Mingzhi.
Producers are Liu Tengyun, Huang Danzhe.
Raw ingredients semen and egg.
I’m a limited edition.
They don’t produce them anymore.
10/29/15
Tr. MW, 10/30/15
标签：beauty, children, china, edition, emperor, empress, 茗芝, growing, ingredients, innocence, Ming Zhi, nature, NPC, one-child-policy, poetry, politics, production, society, 新世纪诗典
发表在 October 2015, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
中国大好き