Requiem

Such a long, long day's journey into night, my dears
The night I have sent you into
Is the deepest purest black
So final, so unrelenting
That it now seems almost tender
Certainly tempting
An indifferent siren humming to herself
As I let go and crash into the waves
Fathomless embrace where no light escapes
In defiance or defeat I can no longer tell
Perhaps it doesn't matter after all
One life or ten
A dozen or a thousand
Let no other be the sad accountant
Tracking then losing each and every one of
All those betrayed and broken
Thus I take my leave
Haltingly, in agony
Eyes longing and shadow lingering
Like too many before me
Softly, softly killing and killed
Unheard unseen unanswered unclaimed
Sinking away into uneasy sleep
Dreaming a billion stolen heartbeats
Until we become the same smoke, the same ashes
Scattered to the same endless winds

Theater of cruelty

Somewhere in the dark they hurried and shot him

He with a death wish

They with a license to kill

Proud and sneering they swept in

In stealth and in ecstasy

Obtuse and single-minded like the bullet

Stone grey like the morning he would never see

As we cheered on, tasting blood

Chorus and spectators

Eagerly watching, waiting, warning

Wanting it to happen

Wanting it to just go away

But not before everyone's had their fill

Of sound and fury

In our very own theater of cruelty

So let us destroy and disown him

An outrage, a freak

An inconvenient message

Devil ex machina

No explanation given nor needed, except that

If there is a gun on stage it must be fired

And this they did, no questions asked

No questions left

For we have found our answer, the only truth

In the final act

Primitive ritual, classical catharsis,

And modern sensation rolled into one

Cheap shot for expensive thrill

On which we are drunk

Full house, standing ovation

Exuent omnes

While the only one remaining, the only one sober

Is the one they took out

He whose madness began it all

He whose violence becomes us so

不存在的屋子

方舟拆毀了是因為

我們已經來到應許的新世界嗎

飛出的鳥就像射出的箭一去不返

沒有帶回任何枝葉或種子

同時我們的花園整片消失

樹籬連根掘倒，盆栽摔碎

留下無用的座標指向

揮發空白的過期地圖

那麼只能開始步行了嗎

在這個沒有海洋

沒有陸地

沒有前後左右

腳下甚至沒有自己影子的地方

所以要到哪裡去呢既然

不剩任何東西證明你確實或曾經存在

除了那些夢——

毫無章法

來自所有方向

並非記憶但無從遺忘

一片片撿起，無可奈何而小心翼翼

單向流動的流沙時計

一片片掉落，沉沒

敝舊的玩具

破損的唱片

那麼多不得不的漫長告別

一片片船難殘骸

奇形怪狀，斷續綿延

再也停不了的雨

再也不會結束的旱季

Sister Revolution

事隔多年和革命再度不期而遇

她有些疲憊顯老但依然驕傲

高顴骨，斷掌似的濃眉

粗硬黑髮照舊紮成麻花辮

我們沒說什麼

只交換一個加密的淡薄微笑

我嘆口氣知道自己畢竟是她的姊妹

打小失散從未相認的那種

當然一如任何姊妹我對

她挑選男人的眼光頗有微詞

他們年輕，飢餓

Viva la Rrrrrevolución 打著舌熱烈愛撫她的名字

自信滿滿談論各種令她慾火焚身的姿勢

其中有些人真心有些人會背叛

某種雞兔同籠

豬羊變色

通吃各家紅心賺取黑桃和方塊的博弈或搏擊

她聳聳肩不以為意

轉身投進另一個懷抱

另一場燃燒

許多人死了，還有更多人將死去

愛她的，恨她的，不巧路過的

她理理凌亂的衣襟

回瞪你眼神放蕩又苦行

她不要什麼

她要你的一切

當一切說完做盡

遠方傳來凱歌和哭聲

她舔舔傷口，綁好頭巾

快步離開她的巨大雕像與更巨大的影子
扔下一朵玫瑰鐵蒺藜

走向下一個事件，世代，或世紀

似曾相識
不期而遇