taking off everything that can be taken off
by Yao Feng
taking off everything that can be taken off
my net weight is seventy kilos
this is just the body
it has nothing to do with the soul
as for the soul, it has no net weight
it has only feather weight
because you have to add the darkness
and you have to add the ruins
The literal translation of this poem was made by Chenxin Jiang
The final translated version of the poem is by The Poetry Translation Workshop
Notes
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