What has the world received from poets?

What has the world received from farmers?
Lifelong rations.
Bread, eggs, and ham sausages.
Rural scenery.
All kinds of absurdities of "country bumpkins" after entering the city,
Enough to make us happy for an evening.

 

What has the world received from workers?
The Great Wall and the Pyramids.
Densely packed high-rise buildings.
Bikinis and Lamborghinis.
Bicycles and masturbators.
The leading class in socialist countries.
Adjectives for revolutionaries.

 

What has the world received from businessmen?
Everything has a price.
Everything can be bought and sold.
One kidney in exchange for two mobile phones.
This market is not too bad.

 

What has the world received from soldiers?
Names or numbers on heroic monuments.
The feats of great marshals.
Orphans, widows, and mothers' tears.
Being organized to sweep tombs in martyrs' cemeteries on Tomb-sweeping Day.
Death, disability, and rape.
Fear or illusory sense of security.
Ruins.

 

What has the world received from emperors?
Portraits on coins.
Daily records and imperial autographs.
Transparent new clothes.
Rewards we hand in and then transfer to favored officials.
Imperial edicts.
Palace dramas.
The corpse hanged on Coal Hill.*

 

What has the world received from poets?
Layers of wheat waves stirred up by the endless wind.
The hammer and sickle that are always in love on the red flag.**
Songs in line in front of the Industrial and Commercial Bank.
Mercenaries walking in the mountains to loot a spring.
The emperor wakes up from his dream and finds himself turned into a beggar.

*Chongzhen, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, hanged himself on Coal Hill after the capital was captured by the rebel army.

**The Party flag of the Communist Party of China.