The Sponger’s Song

By Yu Guangzhong

If a menu is dreamy as a song,then the bill sobering as a cracked prose held long;

A tip agonizes the niggardly,like royalties to pay;a toxic meal’s poisoning forces the toxins hurled upon the floor,like criticisms from a stodgy bore.◆

(FromYu Guangzhong's Classics, Modern World Publishing Press. Translation:Chase Coulson)

如果菜单

梦幻

像诗歌

那么账单

清醒

像散文

Yu Guangzhong (also Yu Kwang-chung,1928-2017) was a famous writer, poet,educator and critic in Taiwan, China.

而小费呢

吝啬

像稿费

食物中毒

呕吧

像批评◆