汉英双语诗〈狗一般〉刊登于《芝加哥时报》2022.6.25

狗一般

有罪！

白人手里的球棒大叫

黄色有罪！

就这样

一个黄人被狗一般活活打死

无罪！

白人手里的法槌大叫

白色无罪！

就这样

一个白人被狗一般活活开释

附注：1982年6月汽车城底特律的华裔工程师陈果仁，因细故被白种工人误认为抢饭碗的日本人，活活用球棒打死。事后白人法官只判罚款的微刑了事。

LIKE A DOG

GUILTY!

The bat in a white man's hand shouted

YELLOW IS GUILTY!

So

a yellow man was killed

like a dog.

NOT GUILTY!

The gavel in a white man's hand shouted

WHITE IS NOT GUILTY!

So

a white man was released

like a dog.

*In June 1982, in the enclave of Highland Park, Detroit, Vincent Chin , a Chinese American, was beaten to death with a baseball bat by an unemployed white worker who mistook him as a job-grabbing Japanese.   The case generated public outrage over the lenient sentence of the murderer, and it became a rallying point for the Asian American community.

https://chicagochinesetimes.com/2022/06/24/【非馬雙語詩】a-bilingual-poem-of-william-marr-狗一般-like-a-dog/