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Tuner: for Qi Hong

Changming Yuan

While still in Mayuhe on the other
Side of this world, you somehow gave me
An air-tuner, supposedly to help me
Learn erhu, the violin with only two strings
As a re-educated youth during the Cultural
Revolution, which you somehow asked me
To return to you before I took my long journey
Towards the West
                        (Like the monkey king?)

            Now almost half a century
Later, I forget how to play the instrument
But I can still sing my youthful song of
Love in perfect tune with your chuckles
Like a kite whose string remains in
Your hand however far or high
                        I have been flying

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