Li Po: "For Tu Fu"

FOR TU FU

by Li Po


On Boiled Rice Mountain
I met Tu Fu

wearing a big round
bamboo hat
in the hot noon sun

Tu Fu
how come
you've grown
so thin?

you must be suffering
too much
from poetry!




Translated by David Young

IT'S YOUR DECISION #2

You could spend 25 years slogging through almost impenetrable jungle-forests mapping the remains of a forgotten city. Or, you could lay in a hammock drinking pina-coladas for 24 years and then use a laser to map the forgotten city in four days. IT'S YOUR DECISION.