Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Butterfly Dream: Unemployment Rate Haiku by Elliot Nicely

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.
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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousJune 25, 2024 at 4:09 PM

    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.

    And what's the unemployment rate? The "length" of "our" street is left for each reader's imagination and reflection

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