A person in a hurry: a delivery man's poem

Introduction

The author of this book, Wang Jibing, is a delivery man who has traveled a total of 150,000 kilometers, which is equivalent to running back and forth along the Great Wall 15 times. During his days of shuttling between cities, he saw more people who were struggling for survival like him, delivery men, migrant workers, cleaners, and nannies. They were rushing around in a hurry, but they lost their identities: they could not find a place to stay in the city, and their hometown and parents were getting farther away.

Like a wandering poet from the bottom of China, Wang Jibing recorded his own and their embarrassment, as well as his self-esteem as a worker. He wrote: I also have my own independent country, my boiling blood is my endlessly flowing rivers, my jagged bones are my towering mountains.

These poems, written on cigarette boxes and waste newspapers in the gaps between rushing to finish, are folk songs from the work site, full of vitality, rough and sharp. Some of them were accidentally uploaded to the Internet, triggering unexpected resonance, and a single poem has been read by as many as 20 million people. This book is the first collection of his poems.