"Lucky Draw"

She gets a canned husband,
and a bunch of motorized relatives.
She gets a new set of fingernails,
eyebrows and nose.
She gets the title of vice-chairman
of all associations.
She gets four crocodiles that can sing,
a hippopotamus that sends flowers regularly
a rhinoceros that waits at the corner of the street,
a big hairy tortoise that requires talk.
She gets a hairy net.
She gets two bloody hearts.
She gets the kind of vacuum cleaner
her neighbor Asou bought just last week.
She gets identical dust to go with it.
She gets twelve certified university entrance examination
                                                                                                              approvals.
She gets as bonus small dishes offered by all the
                                              
different brands of soy sauces (City, 83).

Hong Kong poet, Leung Ping-Kwan, in his City at the End of Time. Trans. Gordon T. Osing. Hong Kong: Twilight Books in association with the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Press, 1992.

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