{"id":4685,"date":"2015-02-11T22:06:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T03:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=4685"},"modified":"2015-02-10T22:20:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T03:20:52","slug":"ma-lanthey-knocked-my-teeth-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/ma-lanthey-knocked-my-teeth-out","title":{"rendered":"Ma Lan:They knocked my teeth out."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2015\/02\/CharlesLaughlin-150x150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4687\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2015\/02\/CharlesLaughlin-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"CharlesLaughlin-150x150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>CharlesLaughlin<\/p>\n<p>I became a member.<\/p>\n<p>Two Poems by Ma Lan translated from Chinese by Charles A. Laughlin.<\/p>\n<p>Read original in Chinese<\/p>\n<p>Writing a Love Poem for a Tooth<\/p>\n<p>by Ma Lan<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2015\/02\/MaLan-150x150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4686\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2015\/02\/MaLan-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"MaLan-150x150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>MaLan<\/p>\n<p>1. I want to knock out my molars. There are eight ways to knock them out.<br \/>\nKnock them out lightly. Knock them out hard. First lightly then hard. First hard then lightly.<\/p>\n<p>2. As I am the freshly minted 2003 Poet Laureate of Bent-Neck Village, my dentist is a Yale PhD.<br \/>\nHe insisted that I do a deep cleaning.<br \/>\nHe stands on the Himalayas teaching Nepalese children to brush their teeth.<br \/>\nBrushing in the sunshine and smiles\u2014modern industrial society takes smiling seriously<br \/>\nThe snowy mountains flow downward.<\/p>\n<p>3. I joined a tooth club, the dues were 300 Bent-Neck dollars.<br \/>\nMy sponsors\u2019 names are secret, there are only two. One witness.<br \/>\nThey pulled me off my bed and beat me up. I picked up my application. They beat me again.<br \/>\nThey knocked my teeth out. I became a member.<\/p>\n<p>4. The purpose of a toothbrush. The correct method of brushing your teeth.<br \/>\nBrush after eating. Use an electric toothbrush. Don\u2019t use too much force as you brush.<br \/>\nCosmetic dentistry has three categories: stain removal, capping, and enameling.<\/p>\n<p>If your goal in brushing your teeth is not pure, your teeth will not get white.<br \/>\nIf you do not have the correct toothbrush method, your teeth will not have a proper attitude.<\/p>\n<p>5. According to legend, there are two sets of teeth in our lives; we must make a transition from baby teeth to permanent teeth, or we become inhuman<br \/>\nWe must familiarize ourselves with and deeply understand the progressive spirit of teeth<br \/>\nThe emergence of each permanent tooth adheres to the time and order of its elders\u2014in the moonlight each tooth and its comrade emerge on the left and right<br \/>\nThe first permanent molars emerge at about age six, and so are named \u201csix year molars\u201d<\/p>\n<p>6. One of my right teeth suddenly fell out.<br \/>\nNo explanation, and I could not find the instructions.<\/p>\n<p>7. I clenched my teeth. Teeth bite people, bite dogs.<br \/>\nNo wonder the tooth wanted to fall out. Heaven and earth changed color because of it.<\/p>\n<p>8. \u201cOf 65 tongue cancer victims surveyed between ages 26 and 39, 56 have teeth tilted toward their tongues.\u201d<br \/>\nThis could be a sign of the cause of international political conflicts: implicit agreement disturbed from left and right; advantage gained from both sides.<\/p>\n<p>9. The knocked-out tooth is swallowed down. Then it grows out of the stomach.<\/p>\n<p>translated from Chinese by Charles A. Laughlin<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/circumferencemag.org\/?p=2793\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CharlesLaughlin I became a member. 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