Du Sishang
PERFECT DAY
Physical in the morning, blood pressure third time
down to 130. Holding urine forever
till ultrasound shows shiny walls in the bladder
and they can use it. Lying down to take a nap,
my wife wakes me, her mother went out
to sell paper boxes, scraped someone’s new car.
I rush to the scene, rescue my mother in law,
take the car’s owner to the repair shop for rubbing and waxing.
They are finished, it’s time to pick up our son.
At dinner her mother has added my favourite cucumber onion dish
and opened a beer called Belching Beaver.
The taste’s complicated and strong, I belch a few times.
3/18/24
Translated by MW on August 1st, 2024
中国大好き 