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April 12,
2003
Recalling the Past at T'ung
Pass
by Chang Yang-hao
Translated by C.H. Kwock and Gary Gach
As if gathered together
the peaks of the ranges.
As if raging,
the waves on these banks.
Winding along
these mountains & rivers,
the road to T'ung Pass.
I look west
& hesitant I lament
here where
opposing armies passed through.
Palaces
of countless rulers
now but dust.
Empires rise:
people suffer.
Empires fall:
people suffer.
Chang Yang-hao (1269-1329)
was a Yuan Dynasty government official, during China's occupation
by the Mongol Empire. C.H. Kwock is co-translator with Vincent
McHugh of the lost classic Old Friend from Far Away - 150
Chinese Poems from the Great Dynasties.
With Gary Gach, he co-founded The
Li Po Society of America. Gary Gach is editor of What
Book!? ~ Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop (American Book
Award 1999) and author of The
Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Buddhism. Gary Gach
can be reached at: ggg@well.com
The poem is essentially a lyric
from a Chinese opera aria, a form which evolved during the Yuan
Dynasty, as China's poets lost government patronage and began
composing to popular tunes. Interestingly, this text may be one
of the first uses of the word "people" in Chinese literature.
The Mouse of Anarchy
By Adam Engel
If power is everything and
all you want,
We can find you a courtier's position
Consulting the nefarious Man Mouse
Of imperial Florida's Magic Kingdom;
However, you must know your place; look humble,
Pasty, pale, as if chilled by the ghost
Of Walt himself (flash-frozen
upon giving up the ghost,
For he who lived one life grand was sure to want
Another; more, at least, than was allotted his humble
Beginnings: immortality, befitting his position
As Divine Majesty of cartoon Kingdom).
Beware the megalomaniac, Man Mouse
Who can and will, with the
click of a mouse,
Erase you, file by file, until you're naught but a ghost
in the machine. To live safely in the Kingdom
And avoid harassment, you'll want
To situate yourself in the bland position
Of cloying, though ineffectually humble,
Servant. True, the unctuous
conniving of the humble
Is transparent to anyone but the mocking mouse
running the show, but regarding your position,
Who else matters? Surely not that fowl ghost
Who ducks 'tween tourists, quacking, "Anyone want
Sex for over-priced tickets to the Kingdom?"
It is said that he who enters
this Mickey Mouse Kingdom
Through sex, scalping or subterfuge must humble
Himself before the Mercenary Mouseketeers who want
Lifetime passes to the whole of Mini-Mouse --
Surely no ordinary mouse hole -- but who stands a ghost
Of a chance to "get any" so long as the position
Of the MASTER MOUSE remains
secure? To position
Yourself as a brash usurper of the Kingdom
Is not only foolish but dangerous, since every ghost
In the Haunted Castle, looking for a humble
Sinecure on Main Street, will rat you to the mouse,
Who'll deny you that Duchy you want
In Frontier Land (cake position!),
where Injuns live free and die of want.
But then: even Bambi's ghost might be hard-pressed to humble
Itself before the Kingdom of that vain, soprano mouse.
Adam Engel lives in New York and can be reached
at: asengel@attglobal.net
AfterMathic Roars
by Hammond Guthrie
Rubbish bin blood rats and
flies
spreading bloated corpses
laborious heart-gurgling flesh
"Dead, dead, their dead,
what can we do?"
Babies killed by cluster bombs
transformed into tiny visions of hell
coated with stale sera and gangrene
"Dead, dead, their dead,
what can we do?"
Soiled sheets screaming amid
pain
scenes of anarchy, waste, terror
and unexploded pestilence
"Dead, dead, their dead,
what can we do?"
Unclaimed corpses burying themselves
charred and bloodied give up hope
of ever knowing who they were
Eyes that can not speak
tongues that can not see
abandoned in a yard
"Dead, dead, their dead,
what can we do?"
Hammond Guthrie is the author of AsEverWas:
Memoirs of a Beat Survivor. He can be reached at: writenow@spiritone.com
(C) 2003 Hammond Guthrie
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