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我很抱歉
我很抱歉
我很抱歉
因為很重要所以說三遍
因為必須道歉的事簡直數不完
對不起我是女人
對不起我是同性戀
對不起就算我不是女人不是同性戀卻比他們更柔軟
對不起我受了傷
對不起我竟沒有抵抗／竟膽敢抵抗
對不起我愛的人遇害
對不起我愛的人加害
對不起我居然沒尖叫給他死給他死
對不起我怎麼不自己去死一死
對不起，真的很抱歉
誰叫我是魯蛇
誰叫我是宅男
誰叫我天天加班慣老闆
誰叫我來自印尼泰國菲律賓和越南
對不起我不夠瘦不夠高不是正妹或天菜
一定是這樣我家才會被拆
我們的部落被賤賣
每天呼吸喝水就足以致癌
老了病了殘了窮了活該
對不起如果我憤怒痛哭或嘔吐
（啊多麼痛的領悟剩下芭樂歌是全部）
對不起所有小孩老鷹和大樹
（兩隻石虎兩隻石虎
（跑不快，真奇怪）
對不起我不是（也不想當）太宰治
對不起我還在寫詩
對不起到此為止

唯物論

——寫給朋友

有些男人是動物有些是植物

有些是礦物有些是食物

此所以格物致知很重要

當然我們都多少聽過傳說中的

神仙眷侶或神鵰俠侶

他們天人合一

他們物我兩忘

但那是種嗯，境界？沒得強求

至於妳你我我他和她

通常仍需對抗無可迴避的生物事實

某些萎縮或膨脹

鬆弛或緊繃

問題可能在於物理心理病理甚至地理

總之妳不動我們很難判斷

就像一枚跳棋不先走一格擋住後面所有的計算

關於物換星移

關於物極必反

關於十幾年如何一滴滴漏下凝固

成一個沉重緊閉的盒

是禮物廢棄物還是爆裂物妳不想知道

或者盒裡藏著妳空缺的破片

被彎折，拆除，放棄的

兀自揮發著微光

以物易物換得妳現在的模樣

妳說那是公平交易物以類聚

我說妳太死心眼了不適合談生意

妳說可是貨物出門概不退換

我說我們找消保官好不好

不然我抱抱妳或打妳一巴掌好不好

在事物的核心

纏著妳遺忘的什麼

只有妳能看見

只要妳能看見

抽起那根正確的線

迷宮將層層崩塌迎刃而解

妳是必須逃脫的冒險者也是被囚禁的怪物

是承諾也是信物

走吧起飛吧前進吧轉彎吧

一切都不再一切何妨
拉倒重來
本來無一物

此物最相蝕

The day before

The rain when it came was almost a relief

Loud but stuttering

Hesitant promise of a storm to come

Something swirling out there

Twirling in here

Both brooding, both at sea

And in between charts must be consulted

About clouds, currents, fronts and depressions

How the wind may blow

How the stars ascend and align

Supernatural contraption or divine intervention

To form, reform and transform the world

You wait, then wait some more

The rain falls, and falls again

Never on the right spot

Never at the right moment

The story of your, their, our lives

So when will...?
Or is it all...?
Suspended in the borrowed hour
Almost but not quite
Half-hatched dreams and stillborn darkness
Nothing has happened
Everything has passed

The night is my refuge

The night is my refuge

A dark place easily within reach

Where I go and hide

Burying my head after Sandman passes through

I loiter in the long quiet corridor

Inspecting every speck of dust

Tiny beginnings of a spider web
Hints of some unseen draught, perhaps?

Never a glance at the faint light in the doorway

And if you curl up on your side

The corridor becomes a well

The little patch of sky almost out of sight
Almost reassuring

Distant possibility like a waking dream

Safe in the collective shadow

You pretend to forget your own

While it feeds on itself and grows

Every night

Every day

Between the familiar devil and the deep blue sky

An ache I've known so long it's turned phantom -

No longer sure if it's really there -

The simulation of an illusion, or vice versa

So I stay up and stay down

As the day seeps in and washes over

Inevitable and indifferent like ocean waves

Leaving all exposed and exhausted, again

And again

非典型六月

雨從天亮之前開始
細涼無聲一如悄悄掩至的黎明
低著暗著
一個暫避白晝的彎道，不久也
轉過去了
而你被夢逼上路肩
那些陌生的傷害和死滅
如此虛幻如此切身
某種滲透睡與醒的濕氣
你翻身，挪枕頭
蓋被掀被開關風扇
以各種角度橫在床上像壞掉的指針
無怪混亂的讀數紛紛浮現
關於你和你的和不是你的
（而這三者要區分有時如此困難）
同時雨仍在下
擾亂的，安撫的
彷彿再不會結束
不會結束該多好／多糟
你回到那個轉角
關掉雨刷
只看玻璃上潺潺扭動的水流
透明模糊，輾轉反覆
可以是一天
可以是一年

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