Rainy Saturday

Rainy Saturday

Farmers and children know

To do what the rain is good for

But I don’t know

I’m trapped by the rain

Alone in my house

Can’t go out to the side of my dame

Please milky sky

Take out your clouds

Out of the city to the farms

Because I’m too old now

To take a shower in the rain

To play games with water again

Because the rain over this town

Is so redundant

As it is over the ocean

And as wasted and useless

As this stupid “poem”

And a tear in the fields of war

Li Tao Po

VABM August 2, 2014