It’s a pain

Not in the arse

Not in the neck

Not even in the fingers

Searching for the word, e.g. in an online Chinese dictionary

Called youdao, Having the Way

In which the words, Chinaman Fish, is defined as

Miaomang Yu, an uncertain fish

Or distant fish, or if you rely on the expression

Xiwang miaomang, little hope or hopeless

You may arrive at the conclusion that it is

A hopeless fish

All, might I say, are correct

Even in this incorrect age

Trying to be correct in every sense

Of the word

One wonders why it was not called an ‘Australianman fish’

In the first place

Or an ‘Englandman fish’

Or an ‘Americanman fish’

Why, of all the appellations, Chinaman fish

Amazingly, though, there are no definitions for it

In a number of online Chinese dictionaries

Such as n 词酷 or 爱词霸 or 沪江小 d

Or even 海词词典, an ocean of words

None of one’s business

Although one fishes easily from one’s memory

This poisonous specimen from the Queensland seas

Where, one speculates, 150 years or so ago

A Chinaman, unable to bear all the Australian

Harshness and hardness and haplessness

Turned into a fish

Who swam loud enough to wake the living

‘Chinaman Fish, I am

the Chinaman Fish’

Till all the English dictionaries

Capture him

In their wordloads