The standard punishment for rebels
As he leans into the podium
At the Langham Building in Kaslo.
The Reverend Mealey can't approve
This blatant display of tipsiness
From a translator of the Chinese
Who's also a fellow westerner.
Once Stone House and Cold Mountain are sung,
And the final explanations wrung
From comparison of Mandarin
And English prosodic tradition,
The Reverend wades into Q&A
By pretending to question "baggage"
And "bias" in Red Pine's translations,
When really he's pissed about whiskey.
Those poets wrote about drunkenness.
"But, but, but from different grains!!" he roars.
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