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Ouyang Yu
‘Don’t be stupid’ (‘바보같이 굴지 마’)
I looked at his darkening profile, So, you are Korean? No, Chinese, he said If he were the black guy last night I’d keep talking about Kenya and Obama How his dad used to be working in the bank whose …
Strokes country (획을 긋는 나라)
If you put people next to a stroke Like this丨 On its right Like this:人 You become wings Like this:人丨 If you want to be air Borne you put the person along Side an English Letter: H Like this:人H You …
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Ouyang Yu: Happiness
A happy country does not mean its people are happy A guy who drives his 170,000-dollar Mercedes Benz Scarcely knows what to do with the in-flow of his money Instead he makes more merde money Happiness when the moon shines …
Ouyang Malley: The Kingsbury Tales: the shirt
OUYANG MALLEY is an unknown Australian poet whose first published poem is ‘The Kingsbury Tales: the shirt'.
Ouyang Yu: Invading Australia: a Sequence
Ouyang Yu is a poet and novelist based in Melbourne, Australia.
Ouyang Yu: Reading Dana Gioia, wrongly that is
Ouyang Yu is a poet and novelist based in Melbourne, Australia; visit his website.
Ouyang Yu: Hobart, 2003, Back to the Colonial Times
Ouyang Yu lives in Melbourne.
Zhang Ping: I am Belgium's Zhang Ping. So Are You
Translated by Ouyang Yu I am Belgium's Zhang Ping. So are you swaying from side to side, we play saxophones together two tunes coming out of one brass wind strolling outside the window, like this snowy night as you said …
Zhang Minhua: Daily Life
Translated by Ouyang Yu at five in the morning, i can hear pigs shrieking from across the river i can imagine how a sharp knife thrusts into the throat of a pig and how the hot blood shining with a …
Zhang Minhua: In the Elevator
Translated by Ouyang Yu in the elevator, four or five people greeted each other mechanically i was embarrassed they were all in their forties or fifties – even i, the youngest, was thirty-odd years of age my vicious eyes were …
Yu Kuichao: The Horses On the Slope
Translated by Ouyang Yu one horse, two horses three four five six seven horses one horse the net-shaped horse the transparent horse from one empty door to another empty door the skin of the grass rubbing against the belly the …




