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 <\/p>\n

A Meeting in Naju\u2019s Bar<\/strong><\/p>\n

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20-years-older-Me sent me a letter proposing to meet.
\nI replied that I would bring along 20-years-younger-Me.
\nSo, we met.
\nThe old hostess Naju was still serving drinks and eats.
\nRoasting pork belly on the briquet stove,
\nPast-Me drank red-labeled soju,
\nI drank millet wine, and
\nFuture-Me\u2019s nerves had weakened from too much drink
\nSo he sipped bean sprout soup.<\/p>\n

We all laid our memories out on the table.
\nWe agreed to keep our wives and children out of it.
\nThough we were all suspicious of one another,
\nWe comforted each other with our ability to forget.
\nPast-Me said he was reading Karl Marx,
\nI said I was reading travel books, and
\nFuture-Me said he didn’t read books any longer.
\nOur conversation started obscurely.<\/p>\n

During our talk, the grill pan was changed twice, the wine cups were shuffled,
\nAnd the now-cool bean sprout soup was reheated.
\nI asked them about their happiest moments.
\nPast-Me said that there were no happy moments, only sad ones.
\nFuture-Me managed to top his cynicism, saying
\nThat the present is always the abyss into which
\nPast and future are swallowed \u2013
\nIt makes life happen whether or not we want it to,
\nAnd makes life a toil for bare survival.
\nAt that moment, somebody overturned the table in anger.<\/p>\n

Looking back,
\nI have tried to piece together my shattered memory of those three hours:
\nPast-Me shouted out, \u201cDo we even know the difference between ‘truth’ and fact?’\u201d
\nI spoke of my department head as a ‘Rascal’, and
\nFuture-Me kept talking about mother who had passed away long ago.
\nI remember the hostess Naju pushing our backs out of the bar,
\nBut I can’t remember how we parted ways.
\nAs in a dream, somebody seemed to say
\n“Bastard!” That was the last thing I remember.<\/p>\n

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TRANSLATOR :\u00a0<\/strong>Seth Feldman<\/strong> (Canada, b. 1977) is a teacher, writer and musician<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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