Love For You Poem by Luo Zhihai

为你钟情


县城有点大腹便便
马路拥挤了很多
连南门湖的越南鲫也肥
幼石街早淋了沥青
马思聪的思乡曲里可能还有些鹅卵石
那条叫做大街的地方，现在看起来像小巷

龙津大包风靡了我的童年
听说渔舟晚唱是海丰八景，我爸也许未曾见
龙津溪不是一条河
两岸无敌长的大钢管，像龙浮沉于水面
我想，就叫它黑龙江

草膏 狗毛膏 蛤春丸 没人叫喊
倒港纸的大叔和他的凳子
在东门头，一坐几十年
路过城隍庙，有辆车在歌唱：
'市民朋友们，现在是垃圾收集时间……'


Love For You


The county is potbellied a little
The road is crowded very much
Even the Vietnamese carps in the South Gate Lake are also fat
Early the Small Pebble Street was cast asphalt
Ma Sicong's 《Homesick Song》may have some pebbles also
The place called the Big Street, now looks like a lane

The Dragon Saliva Steamed Stuffed Buns popularized my childhood
Heard 《The Evening Singing In The Fishing Boat》 was one of 《The Eight Scenery Of Haifeng》. My father maybe never saw it
The Dragon Saliva River doesn't a river
Both sides of the large steel pipes are invincible long
Like two dragons floating on the surface of the water
I think, let us call it the Black Dragon River

Grass Cream, Dog Hairs Cream and Frog Ovum Bolus. No one called them
The uncle business of Hong Kong currency and his stool
In the East Gate Top Street, had sat for several tens of years
Passing through the Town God's Temple, a dumpcart was singing:
'Friends of the citizens, now is garbage collection time...'


北京时间4/1/2018 Beijing Time庄剑彬诗，罗志海译
Poetry by Zhuang Jianbin, Translation by Luo Zhihai