Wuhan, Jiayou/Add Oil (AO)! All masks on, all hands washed clean, Wuhan, AO! Stay home, stay away from the animal farm, Wuhan, AO! Don’t fear quarantine, don’t fear Room 101, Wuhan, AO! If you cannot flee from coronavirus, just say No to Big Brother, Wuhan, AO! Watch death polls, watch the telescreens, Wuhan, AO! Rise against infection, rise against Mr Jones, Wuhan, AO! Be aware of human contact, be aware of Napoleon, Wuhan, AO! If you cannot flee from coronavirus, just say No to Big Brother, Wuhan, AO! Fight for fresh air, fight for freedom of speech, Wuhan, AO! Stop choosing to eat wildlife, stop doublethinking, Wuhan, AO! Return to Laozi’s Dao, return to harmony with nature, Wuhan, AO! If you cannot flee from coronavirus, just say No to Big Brother, Wuhan, AO! To hell with barbaric traditions, to hell with totalitarian rule, Wuhan, AO! Recall your valiance, recall your first gunshot of modern China in 1911, Wuhan, AO! Do away with rumours, do away with memory holes, Wuhan, AO! If you cannot flee from coronavirus, just say No to Big Brother, Wuhan, AO! Modern Jewish Theologies Marx’s historical materialism proves There was no god in time to begin with Einstein’s principle of relativity illustrates There is no supernatural being in space Whereas Freudian psychology reveals There is no holy existence in the mind Except desires of, by or for the people, and Desires alone, that are the real motive force In the making of world history, as Mao says Dytiscus Larvae: a Capitalist Tragicomedy One most ferocious robber in the pond World, observes a zoologist, is a slim, Streamlined insect called the Dytiscus larvae: Lying in ambush on a water grass He suddenly shoots at lightning speed To his prey (or anything moving or smelling Of ‘animal’ in any way, a fat tadpole, for Instance), darts underneath it, then quickly Jerks up his head, grabs it in his jaws Injects his poisonous glandular secretion into it Dissolves its entire inside into a liquid soup And sucks as it swells up first, and then gradually Shrinks to a limp bundle of skin until it finally falls From his fatal kiss. Very few animals According to the observer Even when starved to death would attack Let alone eat an equal-sized animal Of their own species But the Dytiscus does, just as man does Within or without a pond Delivering Guy: Workers vs Capitalists You got work to do Always on the run To deliver packages (Ordered online) instead Of pizzas or documents Let alone money Packages are just boxes Full of empty tomorrows Maybe some chance today But surely garbage in the end A monstrous new mansion Two ghostly fingers for signature No stopping, no place to rest Except boxes, big and small Moving on my shoulder, like A piece of luggage on the belt You have been delivering all this Together with your own life too long You wanna quit now Prison Camp no, there is no barbed wire; no neither stockade nor watch tower which are both unnecessary: this is a real jungle on an unmapped island, where every untrodden trail of escape leads to death only quick and direct but if you toil hard enough (with your pen or bare hands) you might perhaps survive or succeed Languacolonization Is a British word meaning to modernize To globalize, or to Americanize All the colonies with an imperial syntax Yes, it refers to the English Empire, where The moon never sets, nor even the Babel Tower Has a chance to rise, it was established to Anglicize not only the local dialect Spoken on each of those barren islands But also the way all native minds Living in the central parts of continents Spell their own names, paint their road signs In this wild world newly digitalized You came, you see, you’re conquering With a whole set of rules to grammaticize… Yuan Changming published monographs on translation before leaving China. Currently, Yuan edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include ten Pushcart nominations, eight chapbooks (most recent one being East Idioms [cyberwit.net, 2020]) & publications in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17) & BestNewPoemsOnline, among 1639 others across 44 countries. Lotus Image & License: Depositphotos_32738103_s-2015 |
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