LI PO
FOR TU FU
On Boiled Rice Mountain
I met Tu Fu
wearing a big round
bamboo hat
in the hot noon sun
Tu Fu
how come
you’ve grown
so thin?
you must be suffering
too much
from poetry!
[from FIVE T’ANG POETS, translated by David Young]
some of us grow fat on poetry
If only that worked––I think Tu Fu has been imbibing again (and again) as Li Po said on many occasions. I think he traveled so much because he tipped over the dinner bowl so often!
And at 75
I ain’t even begun
to suffer
yet
unlike my readers
Thanks again, NB
Yes, I know this one, thanks, Leo getting fat
Get drunk on words and fat on love. Yes.