someone says in the Age (11/9/04)
that Martin Amis gets an advance for £500,000
and that a Michelle Paver gets more, £3 million
this is all fine for me
till you have a closer look:
500,000 vs 3,000,000
the bigger figure has only one more zero
look closer still
except for 5 & 3
all the rest are zeroes
Drinkable stuff
What is semen made of?
Is it drinkable?
I am made to wonder about this
When I watch expressionlessly
The two women swallow up
The whole loads of it
In the spoon of their tongues
In his own image
they say
God created man
in his own image
I say
Ouyang Yu created Australia
in his own image
In Wagga Wagga
With the arrival of a poet
Everything seems to go wrong
A breakfast becomes plastic
A workshop with minimal attendance
Because rain, over the Murrunbidge River, supposedly stopped
Any interested, even as slightly as the rain
And three nights
No visits by a single possum
I know, the correct spelling for the river is Murrumbidgee
And we thus have come full circle
Going fast
what comes fast
goes fast
what goes fast
comes back fast
it comes back fast
it comes back fast
in this go-come-back process
you go fast
Bionote
Ouyang Yu has to date published 73 books in both English and Chinese languages in the field of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, literary translation and criticism. He is now teaching creative writing and literary translation in a Shanghai-based University.
that's 5 poems, not 4. but many thanks!
ReplyDeletethat's 5, not 4, poems. thank you.
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