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Monday, September 01, 2008

I Am a Madman (Du Fu) 





I Am a Madman


My thatched cottage stands
just west of Thousand Mile Bridge

this Hundred Flower Stream
would please a hermit fisherman


bamboo sways in the wind
graceful as any court beauty


rain makes the lotus flower
even more red and fragrant


but I no longer hear from friends
who live on princely salaries


my children are always hungry
with pale and famished faces


does a madman grow more happy
before he dies in the gutter?


I laugh at myself -- a madman
growing older, growing madder.


Du Fu (712 - 770)


(picture from Wikipedia)

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