To Tu Fu from Shantung

Portrait of Li Po
Li Po 701–762

You ask how I spend my time-- I nestle against a treetrunk and listen to autumn winds in the pines all night and day.

Shantung wine can't get me drunk. The local poets bore me. My thoughts remain with you, like the Wen River, endlessly flowing.

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