HAN Bo

الصينية

David Perry

الانجليزية

持续的,断续的

餐车里,随你揣度的人
感激脚踩风火轮的集体:
集体晃荡,集体不承平,
不着制服的菩萨不腥熟。

站着吃面条的人,感激
制服制不服的一切:你
看,草原快进的黎明白,
土豆猪肉左右集体堆壁。

制服:持续地女与好。
麻袋:断续地男的难。


(2011/7/22  上海)

© HAN Bo
الإنتاج المسموع: Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, 2015

The Steady-going, the Broken Off

In the dining car, you might think the people would be
grateful for the wind of Nezha’s fiery wheel at the collective’s feet:
the collective wobbling, the collective lack of peace,
un-uniformed bodhisattvas, nothing fishy here.

People standing to eat noodles, grateful
for all that joins in refusing uniforms: look,
see the grasslands fast-forwarding to daybreak,
meat and potatoes piling high to form collective walls.

A proper uniform: a steady woman playing nice.
A burlap sack: a broken man breaking bad.

(2011/7/22 Shanghai)

Translated by David Perry