[转载]THE PEOPLE - Yi Sha

Yi Sha

THE PEOPLE

taking a walk in the afternoon

I come out of the east gate of fengqing park

and I see

a young woman leaning on a bicycle

talking on her cellphone:

"hello, director chen

just let my kid into your school

on top of the 50,000 sponsoring money

I will add 10,000 for you,

ok? ...."

behind her

on the back seat of the bicycle

sits a little boy

three or four years old

I walk down the street

but after a while

under the afternoon

hot summer sun

I want to cry

not because I am moved

I'm not moved at all

it was no surprise

it was perfectly normal

but I want to salute

the downtrodden masses accepting their fate

myself among them

the great chinese people

Tr. MW, July 2014