"Reflections"

I seek no drink nor meditation deep;

Hungry, I take my meal, and tired, I go to sleep.

I live on selling verse and pictures as I please;

I rove among red flowers and green willow trees.

My face grows old from year to year in mirror bright;

My wife and I enjoy candlelight as moonlight.

I drink till drunk as often as I enjoy pleasure;

An immortal on earth, I love my life of leisure.

Tang Yin