Modern Poetry
English amongst
汉英之间
Ouyang Jianghe
I live in the pine in Chinese characters,
In these and those between the image of the stare.
They are isolated and run through, body jolts,
Single-gun rhythms such as continuous.
A sound, the characters become simple.
Dropped some arms, legs, eyes,
But the language is still in walking out and see.
Parenting as a mysterious hunger.
And, save a lot of good days,
Let me and the same race of people eating, picky.
In the local accent, in the unity of the dialects, such as a crystal
In the mix of ancient and modern Chinese, the
My lips are like a circular ruins
Teeth into the open
Do not touch a bone.
This landscape, so the meat, Chinese feast world.
I eat my share of the day, and eat the ancients, until the
One evening, I went to the English Corner walk, see
Surrounded by a group of Chinese Americans, I guess they
Want to move to English inside. However, there is no territory of English in China.
It's just a course, a conversation mode, TV shows,
A Department of the University, examination and paper.
I am a piece of paper and pencil exactly like the Chinese.
Casual, wear rubber life.
Experienced a lot of ink, glasses, typewriter
And the heavy lead after
English has been the ease, rolled up in a corner of China.
It makes us accustomed to abbreviations and diplomatically,
There are Western, knife and fork, aspirin.
Such changes do not involve the nose
And skin. Like a toothbrush every morning
English walked in the teeth, so that Chinese white.
Used to eat the dead to eat the book, so
I brush my teeth every day. This is related to water, sanitation and compared.
The resulting the taste, taste, said
And the everyday language of all the difference.
And also on the one hand: it reached into English,
Separation of the middle finger and index finger to simulate
A letter, a victory, a
Nazi-style experience of self.
Cigarette floor, only half went out burning,
Like a piece of history. History is suffering from stuttering
War, and then forward the Third Reich, Hitler.
I do not know if this madman had shot in English, shot through
Shakespeare and Keats.
But I know that the Oxford dictionary, the aristocratic English
There are armed to the teeth, Churchill or Roosevelt's English.
It's metaphor, its material, its destruction of aesthetics,
Explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I saw piles of corpses into a character in Japanese -
However, in the language, the Chinese and Anglo-American alliance.
I read this history, are extremely suspicious.
I do not know my history and who is more ridiculous.
Hundred years, between Chinese and English, what happened?
Why do so many Chinese immigrants in English,
To become yellow, white, and the Chinese
As a divorced ex-wife, as a broken mirror in the home? Actually
What happened? I was alone in the Chinese house arrest,
Dialogue with a number of papers, empty thinking in English,
And see more Chinese people among the meantime,
From a man into a pictographic alphabet people.
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