Liu Bin 刘斌
THAT YEAR I WAS OUT ON THE STREET
有一年我流落街头
the poet li yan
saw my post on weibo
and lent me one thousand yuan
so I could
check into a hotel
when it was minus 12 outside
I had slept in internet bars
many days
that year we all used
netease weibo microblog
yi sha’s npc, new poetry canon
first came out on netease
later li yan
found me a warehouse
a warehouse with heating
it was really warm
but after two days I was sick from the heat
sweating all night
December 2017
Translated by Martin Winter, March 2018
Original version etc. see here.
Martin <dujuan99@gmail.com>