All entries for Monday 28 January 2008

Going Home——a parody of William Empson's Autumn on Nanyue

Writing about web page http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080128/ts_nm/china_weather_dc

“The soul of waiting” is just
what we travellers have to do
(The souls are not lonely now, this city
trapped 100, 000 and as I write
the number perhaps goes up to two
all shudder at the winter’s thrust
In cradles that enourage ‘flu)
Into the warmer Cantonese fair
we entered and otherwise never dare
And men get curiously non-plussed
more urgent is the food than care
The proper trains to get on board
are those remain in your thought
Let the next schedule be discussed
we bet on the fate and leave it to the God
Going home is quite a trouble
But of mother that dinner
many years have failed to smother
As a piece of ice platter
It would not repay me a double

Xiu Wang : 28 Jan 2008 07:57 |  Tags: Poetry |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem