English Original
unemployment rate
the length of our street
empty recycling bins
Moonset, 6:1, 2010
Elliot Nicely
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
失業率
我們街道的長度
空的回收箱
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
失业率
我们街道的长度
空的回收箱
Bio Sketch
Elliot Nicely is the author of The Black Between Stars (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2017) and Tangled Shadows: Senryu and Haiku (Rosenberry Books, 2013). He resides in Lakewood, Ohio.
The jux. of "unemployment" and empty "recycling bins" is fresh and sociopolitically conscious, raising a serious question: are workers either “disposable” or "reusable" in multiple workflows through retraining programs.
ReplyDeleteAnd what's the unemployment rate? The "length" of "our" street is left for each reader's imagination and reflection