祝大家端午节好!
Chinese texts to the poems below are on my blog:
http://banianerguotoukeyihe.com/2018/06/09/dream-1296-etc-%e4%bc%8a%e6%b2%99-yi-sha-traume/
Martin
Yi Sha
DREAM 1065
My wife Old G. takes a rope,
ties up a crocodile’s mouth.
Very tight,
then she picks him up
and shoves him
into an iron cage.
In the cage
there are two other
tied-up crocodiles.
She says, “If you want pets,
you have to raise them this way.
Blows before words.
That little dog,
if you had
tied him up first,
he would be
our little dog now.”
May 2017
Translated by MW, June 2018
Yi Sha
DREAM 1066
Every village
in china
has a halfwit.
I spend the night in some village
and per accident kill their halfwit.
I am terrified,
and even more terrified
when they don’t notice
his disappearance at all.
I get off scot-free.
May 2017
Translated by MW, June 2018
Yi Sha
DREAM 1296
One fellow teacher
and shitty Mao-fan
jumps to his death.
Blood splatters the empty space
between university buildings.
I am shaken,
extremely surprised,
which goes to show
I never thought
their opposition
to the current dynasty
was the real thing.
Tr. MW, June 2018
PROSE POETRY
QUESTION
June 2007, Poetry International Festival Rotterdam.
A Chinese from America who writes in English asks me,
“Who is the best poet in China now?”
“I”, I blurt out.
June 2018
Tr. MW, June 2018
From WING FEATHERS
In the face of this world-class stupid censorship system, the best method is to write a lot, to write very broadly and very well, till you are so fat you’re not afraid of them cutting off meat.
June 2018
Translated by MW, June 2018
From WING FEATHERS
Unlike you, my Kung-Fu guru is not Lu Xun’s brother Zhou Zuoren.
My Shifu’s surname is Liu.
June 2018
Translated by MW, June 2018
From WING FEATHERS
Rather than look at the way you guys preen yourself, let me preen myself too: Editing my new poetry collection, I have way too much material, first choice of everything is no good, I have to choose again, and cut away ruthlessly, otherwise the book gets too thick. So I get very edgy.
June 2018
Translated by MW, June 2018