I may just be sitting on two stools at the same time, sweetheart
i and he behold the rain
Author: Đỗ Văn Hoàng
Published on: 5/17/2016 2:48:35 PM

why’s the rain soaking my head
and not some other guy’s?
isn’t the Red book missing something?
bearing the sound of rain
but without a drop of dampness
my mouth bitterly sucks at the parched night
i rant
“this rain business stinks to shit”
and so it rains and rains
naturally still on my head
“long rain is a forever ignorance”
and with the nerve to keep raining?
“ou (long rain ignorance) ch (forever)”
my head rains a dopey dumb rain
the case of the rain
passes through no judge
rain keeps being rain
as its life-sentence
i’m beside
a guy condemned
for not beholding the rain
who knows why
i rant at him by beholding
he rants at me with rain

-- translated by Kaitlin Rees

-- gif by Nguyễn Hoàng Giang

 

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