许其正：菊花事件

我捧了一束盛开的菊花

兴冲冲地进办公室

仿佛捧了陶渊明

和他悠然看见的那一座南山

给供养在花瓶里后

我便埋头在诸多案牍间

不意才一刹那

抬头一看

猛然发觉那束菊花

已然枯萎殆尽

唉，那束菊花……

Chrysanthemums Incident　Hsu ChiCheng

I hold with both hands a bunch of blooming chrysanthemums

And breeze into my office

Like I were holding the hermit Tao Yuanming

And his Southern Hill at leisure covered with chrysanthemums

After inserting the bunch into a vase

I bury myself into piles of documents

Accidentally

I raise my eyes toward it

To find them

Withered

Alas, the bunch of chrysanthemums …

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