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

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Not at the table, Then on the Menu Gembun

Trump Empire, Inc, LXXI: 
a gembun written in response to Mark Carney's Davos speech on the first anniversary of the Convicted Felon sitting behind Resolute Desk:

Clapping of hands and thumping of feet to the claim: "If we're not at the table, we're on the menu."

my black cat returns
with a bloodied bird in mouth
drums of a trade war



For more poems about Trump's one year in office, see "To the Lighthouse: One Year in Poems: Trumperica, Revisited"


Added: Trump Empire, Inc, LXXII

Canada lives
because of the US, Trump claims 
fart on fart in Davos