Poem
Han Dong
Scenario
when I’ve finished this cigarette, I will make my way to the banquet
travelling across the city in a taxi late in the afternoon
then I’ll come to a brightly lit dining table
one by one good friends will arrive, each one of them feeling just a little keyed up
vivid lights will shine briefly in their faces
and reflect in the spotlessly white tableware, thereafter
increasingly dirtied as a day’s sunset sinks in lip-smeared wine glasses
this scenario is something I read in the smokey haze of a cigarette
© Translation: 2006, Simo Patton
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© 2002, Han Dong
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Scenario
when I’ve finished this cigarette, I will make my way to the banquet
travelling across the city in a taxi late in the afternoon
then I’ll come to a brightly lit dining table
one by one good friends will arrive, each one of them feeling just a little keyed up
vivid lights will shine briefly in their faces
and reflect in the spotlessly white tableware, thereafter
increasingly dirtied as a day’s sunset sinks in lip-smeared wine glasses
this scenario is something I read in the smokey haze of a cigarette
© 2006, Simo Patton
Scenario
when I’ve finished this cigarette, I will make my way to the banquet
travelling across the city in a taxi late in the afternoon
then I’ll come to a brightly lit dining table
one by one good friends will arrive, each one of them feeling just a little keyed up
vivid lights will shine briefly in their faces
and reflect in the spotlessly white tableware, thereafter
increasingly dirtied as a day’s sunset sinks in lip-smeared wine glasses
this scenario is something I read in the smokey haze of a cigarette
© 2006, Simo Patton
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