Chen-ou Liu's Translation Project: First English-Chinese Haiku and Tanka Blog

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Selected Haibun: I Am a Poet Nevertheless

if you die poor and young,
your poems may be worth something ...

her dimpled smile

After she left me for a man with a 9 to 5 job, I say to myself, at least I have two loyal readers: my drunken shadow and the black hooded man holding a scythe.