Poem
Bai Hua
Hate
This hate has the smell of fatty meatAnd the smell of ribs
It springs from ideology’s flat chest
And from the excess hair of class
I have met her, this woman who hates with every cell
She wears a bleak political uniform
Her face filled with a sex-changed world view
Her nerves slack after three years of kow-towing
Has she gone mad, this inhuman soul?
Watch how this Red woman soldier who wallows in struggle
Is starting an uprising, from her flesh to her breathing
To the blind venom that drips from her teeth
A woman who lives only to hate
A pathetic woman whose lungs burn
She is here in amongst us already
And her war on us has begun
© Translation: 2008, Simon Patton
<恨>
<恨>
這恨的氣味是肥肉的氣味也是兩排肋骨的氣味
它源於意識形態的平胸
也源於階級的多毛症
我碰見了她,這個全身長恨的人
她穿著慘淡的政治武裝
一臉變性術的世界觀
三年來除了磕頭就神經渙散
這非人的魂魄瘋了嗎?
這沉緬於鬥爭的紅色娘子軍
看!她正起義,從肉體直到喘氣
直到牙齒浸滿盲目的毒汁
一個只為恨而活著的人
一個烈火燒肺的可憐人
她已來到我們中間
她開始了對人類的深仇大恨
© 2008, Bai Hua
Publisher: First published on PIW,
Publisher: First published on PIW,
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Hate
This hate has the smell of fatty meatAnd the smell of ribs
It springs from ideology’s flat chest
And from the excess hair of class
I have met her, this woman who hates with every cell
She wears a bleak political uniform
Her face filled with a sex-changed world view
Her nerves slack after three years of kow-towing
Has she gone mad, this inhuman soul?
Watch how this Red woman soldier who wallows in struggle
Is starting an uprising, from her flesh to her breathing
To the blind venom that drips from her teeth
A woman who lives only to hate
A pathetic woman whose lungs burn
She is here in amongst us already
And her war on us has begun
© 2008, Simon Patton
Hate
This hate has the smell of fatty meatAnd the smell of ribs
It springs from ideology’s flat chest
And from the excess hair of class
I have met her, this woman who hates with every cell
She wears a bleak political uniform
Her face filled with a sex-changed world view
Her nerves slack after three years of kow-towing
Has she gone mad, this inhuman soul?
Watch how this Red woman soldier who wallows in struggle
Is starting an uprising, from her flesh to her breathing
To the blind venom that drips from her teeth
A woman who lives only to hate
A pathetic woman whose lungs burn
She is here in amongst us already
And her war on us has begun
© 2008, Simon Patton
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