Translations from the Chinese/Thoughts in a Kitchen
THOUGHTS IN THE KITCHEN
THE night I gave a supper to Chancellor Mu Kow
My serving maid departed,
And after the ceremony
I had to do the cleaning-up myself.
And I was thinking:
Even an "informal" dinner
Means a terrible lot of washing up.
And though it takes a pretty big flame
To boil a cauldron of water,
A very small flame
Will keep it boiling.
There must be some philosophical application for these thoughts
If I could only discern it.