Translated…
The road out front was just paved with snow white cement, as Elephant and his daughter pulled the cart over it, and, the cow dung that dropped on the way are just like those toads that were crushed to death by the wheels, first, baked dry by the sun, then, allowing the wheels that came to and fro flatten them out, becoming this sort of a birthmark of the roads. The two of them road the cow car toward the oceans behind the temple of the God of the Earth.
Behind the temple, there was rarely anybody close to the oceans, the dark clouds started gathering up in the skies, and refused to get blown off by the wind, on the oceans, there’s this dead gray, even the waves became too lethargic, they are just latching on to one another, barely. The place was covered with dried up grass, and, this dead place is the land, owned by the stray dogs, as they’d become, the only watchers over this patch of land that’s full of life. And, Elephant and his daughter were, rare guests to this place.
On the afternoon of the birthday of the God of the Earth, grandma finally caved in to me, promised that after she’d offered the blessings to the gods, she will take me to visit the oceans out back. Several black dogs stood by the shores, and glared at us, watching our every single move, and, that kept us away from the showers, the ox that was tied up by the land by the shores was taking its nap, don’t know what Elephant and his daughter were digging up in the sand, they’d carried the dustpan, kept bending down and getting up. Grandma told me, that it would not be nice if they’d seen us. Pulled me quickly away.
As the skies became darker, Elephant and his daughter came passed our house again, with the ox, and now, their cart was filled with a ton of stuff, there were also several old quilts. I’d watched them head off, as they disappeared into the dimming light of day, and I still couldn’t understand, what, they’d managed to pick up from that impoverished sea.
Well, this just shows, how someone else is having such a hard time that you are not aware of, because unlike this father and child who are barely making their ends meet, that they have to go search through other people’s thrown away items, to find something that they can use.
