Cologne Cathedral

When writing this title,
I face the peaks of Little Liangshan
I am unable to relate these beautiful peaks
to the Cologne Cathedral
as in my dank memory
incessantly flash
the beggars curled up at the foot of the cathedral
They wrap themselves up in black cloth
and if you don’t look carefully
they appear just like a pile of discarded things
Everyone deposits large handfuls
of money into the cathedral’s tithe boxes
but isn’t willing to give them even one coin

Luruodiji 鲁若迪基 - Pumi poet from China's southwest

from Luruodiji's Selected Poems