It’s ongoing (Allegory)

Some out of habit
others because of the cholera
some on a whim
and most for fashion,
everyone is going to bathe
in the blue waves.
Only I who do not have
not a single quarter of an hour,
I stay here by force
because they hang by force.
Stay here…? I’m already crying…!
Why? For one thing
…………………….
I’m afraid to be
alone with the microbe
(La Caricatura, Madrid, 1885) (Sadly I cannot say anything about Nao Ping. This one is rich with possibility.)