"If U Can’t See Me, I Can’t See U" (sign at the back of a truck) Outside the picture, if you can’t see me, I can’t see you Under a pile of words, if you can’t see me, I can’t see you Behind a big truck, if you can’t see me, I can’t see you That is, since I drive in front of you If you want to pass but can’t see me in My driver’s seat, or in my front rear mirror, you are In my blind spot, so don’t follow me too closely, don’t Try to pass me, but stay calm behind my shadow Otherwise you would kiss my big ass in a bloody way And so, when you communicate Wait and make sure you see the right person first – That’s for your own safety, pal When you are dating, drawing, cursing, playing or fighting It’s best to have the real person in view: If she can’t kiss you, you can’t kiss her If you can’t put up with me, I can’t put up with you If fame can’t grow out of you, you can’t grow out of fame If money can’t find you, you can’t find money If the politician can’t trust you really, you really can’t trust the politician Look, what I point out is, if you can’t see me, I can’t see you Whether it is in a book, at a cemetery, on a plane, or behind a truck Drive safe, you asshole You Know How Fast You Are Driving? I have no idea, officer, but I am trying to catch the next flight to heaven I have an important appointment with an angel I need to go to a washroom This is my first day to go to work This is my last chance to save my marriage This is the only hope to find my lost child This is the right situation for a surpass My new boss is waiting for me My new bride is expecting me My baby is being borne My father is dying in hospital Something has gone wrong with my right foot Something blurred my eyes for a moment Something is not right with the odometer Something funny is going on… Sure, but I have to give your ticket For driving too fast to your destination Towards a Broader Highway Is it an old bumpkin again Driving a jalopy ford pick up Unable to speed up on a highway Or some mrs billionaire sitting behind the wheel Of a s8000 mercedes Too careful with her fancy life Somewhere in the front? Surely there is no accident No police patrol or even a red light You fuck, you dumb shit, why do you Have to drive so stupid slow On such a gray Saturday evening? You dumb shit, you shouldn’t do this, people eager to press horns on you, to zigzag, to Switch on and off their highbeams to protest Against you originating such snail traffic All of us have to drive at this speed you set Even tho a red toyota cannot wait to make love tonight A blue mac to have a good beer all by himself And a white shadow to meet her death by the weekend You fuck, blocking this long single-laned traffic If only I were driving a crazy tank or a frenzy bulldozer That I can crash your stupid soul, crush your snail car And clear the way to my destiny in the twilight Driver Or Passenger: for Liao Hengxiang Each time I gave my wife a driving lesson We would run into fights Either I slapped on her face Or she nail-raked my skin But luckily she passed her very first test And we did save a few bucks without getting divorced The first time I taught my George how to drive His resentful and doubtful face made me feel Almost guilty of myself as a driver-tutor Whose skills and habits were still as poor as my pockets Now my Allen has just got his learner’s license And I am not going to teach him any driving lessons Since I have proved the lousiest driver in my family The only one to run into an accident at least once a year For the safety of my body and wallet, I have Stopped driving, since I can never be a passenger When my family is on the wheels Automobile Aphorisms 1. keep focusing ahead, for anything beside your chosen lane is none of your concern 2. the plainest jalopy and the most luxurious car of a new model both run on four wheels 3. windshields are much bigger than rearview mirrors simply because the future is more important than the past 4. remember to shoulder-check, just in case some hazard is in your blind spot 5. there is often a plain police car stalking right behind you 6. you are caught speeding when you are least aware of how fast you are driving 7. one of those days you will run into red light at every intersection 8. you can straddle the line, but you can never travel on two lanes at the same time 9. a driving mistake made in a fraction of a second can cost you a lifetime to pay or repent Yuan Changming grew up in an isolated village, started to learn the English alphabet in Shanghai at age nineteen, and published monographs on translation before leaving China. With a Canadian PhD in English, Yuan currently edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include eleven Pushcart nominations, eleven chapbooks (most recently LIMERENCE) as well as appearances in the Best of Best Canadian Poetry & BestNewPoemsOnline, among 1879 other literary outlets across 46 countries. In March 2021, Yuan served on the jury for Canada's 44th National Magazine Awards (poetry category). Lotus Image & License: Depositphotos_3273810 |
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