20) Wolran Lee
Wolran Kim
If you click, it will pop up as The Column Carried Forward.
I click because I want to see myself
I’m looking for the column carried forward
I keep track of the results of the previous period
The period that I took over is infinity
An unknown deadline means eternity
It passes over to tomorrow and next week
Over to next month, even next year
Is the next session that is carried over safe?
The moving process is thoroughly in secret
And the path is neatly cleared
The origin of letters and numbers in hand
Is already finished in black or red ink
In a thin account book that passes over the afterlife from a previous life
Is handing over months and years
By single and multiple forms
The profit and loss statement is not finished
New transactions that are carved like tattoos
By the balances which are carried over whole from somewhere
In the accounting office that only keeps the receivable minus
It is carried and passed over automatically
Just by copying
* Wolran Lee: The poet’s name, ‘Wolran Lee’ has the same pronunciation as ‘the column carried forward’ in accounting books in Korean.