The Hours, Years Are Useless
By Bai Hua
A Rooster heralds the dawn and the hens lay eggs, the hours...
Fallen leaves surging wavelets under the street lamps...
that scientist walks and pauses while thinking:
Are Swedish universities located in the forest?
But textile mills and prisons are in the forest.
A week at most, Tieguanyin tea has set out as a present,
fleshy and delicious are the three snow pears,
just like three goslings hurrying to enter water; not to give,
his name sounds right dodgy, such a headmaster
a dwarf who likes to feign sleep.
"It so happens,
I am sick of being a man."
Pablo Neruda said for many times.
But the hours, years are useless, "Only
the grave will cure the humpback. "
Nikita Khrushchev had his reply.
Dec. 25, 2012 / translated by Chen Zihong
光阴无用
柏桦
公鸡报晓，母鸡生蛋，光阴……
树叶在路灯下腾起细浪……
那科学家走走停停，有所思：
瑞典的大学都在森林里吗？
织布厂和监狱在森林里。
铁观音已送出去了一周，
苍溪雪梨三只肥肥，
若急欲入水的嫩鹅；不送，
那校长的名字听上去很锤子，
矮矮的；他爱玩假睡。
“发生过这样的事，
我已经倦于做人。”
聂鲁达说过很多次了。
而光阴无用，“只有坟墓
能治好一个人的驼背。”
赫鲁晓夫回答了我。
2012年12月25日
