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
2016/05/13
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
2016/05/09
2016/05/06
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
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
不期而遇
2016/04/16
黑白星來的黑白君
黑白星來的黑白君
一直嘗試跟母船重建通訊
他規律搖擺長長尾巴偵測電波
睜圓眼睛掃瞄逐漸熟悉模糊的世界
甚至睡成四腳朝天捕捉信號
母船已經放下他有點久
可能離得有點遠
但必定仍在地球上空循軌道盤旋
繼續派遣及回收探員
就像它有一天必定會來接他一樣
他回想自己的派駐期間
其實尚稱順利
除了一開始略有波折
險些立即折返
同時抵達的橘子君和三花妹
不曉得各自回家了沒
說真的他不知道為何要派駐地球
說真的八成沒人知道
時至今日他依然不太習慣
這裡的重力(太低)和距離(太近)
人類也很遲鈍奇怪溝通不易
不過黑白君個性恬淡
總的來說沒什麼可抱怨,沒什麼
特別值得一提
他在想所謂恆河沙數是不是指身上的毛
他一直舔毛想嚐到時間的味道
也許還是問問母船
(「但暫且不是現在」他壓平耳朵努力發送訊息
「人類還牢牢抱著我不鬆手」)
也許再等等吧,等他沿著
誰灑了一路的
貓草球和小魚乾
穿過街道,穿過森林,穿過夜空
終於拼好生疏多年的密碼
終於回到黑白星的那一天
一直嘗試跟母船重建通訊
他規律搖擺長長尾巴偵測電波
睜圓眼睛掃瞄逐漸熟悉模糊的世界
甚至睡成四腳朝天捕捉信號
母船已經放下他有點久
可能離得有點遠
但必定仍在地球上空循軌道盤旋
繼續派遣及回收探員
就像它有一天必定會來接他一樣
他回想自己的派駐期間
其實尚稱順利
除了一開始略有波折
險些立即折返
同時抵達的橘子君和三花妹
不曉得各自回家了沒
說真的他不知道為何要派駐地球
說真的八成沒人知道
時至今日他依然不太習慣
這裡的重力(太低)和距離(太近)
人類也很遲鈍奇怪溝通不易
不過黑白君個性恬淡
總的來說沒什麼可抱怨,沒什麼
特別值得一提
他在想所謂恆河沙數是不是指身上的毛
他一直舔毛想嚐到時間的味道
也許還是問問母船
(「但暫且不是現在」他壓平耳朵努力發送訊息
「人類還牢牢抱著我不鬆手」)
也許再等等吧,等他沿著
誰灑了一路的
貓草球和小魚乾
穿過街道,穿過森林,穿過夜空
終於拼好生疏多年的密碼
終於回到黑白星的那一天
2016/04/15
2016/04/01
The grand corral
Round them up
Round them up
The weak, the lost, the downtrodden
Their voices muted and stolen
Invisibility too visible all of a sudden
Break them, bind them, brand them
To shelter and to slaughter
The present crushing a future
Of which they know nothing and shall have none
Wretched beasts that they are
Wandering pieces of wilderness
Blemishes on the face of the earth
So round them up
For such is our burden and birthright
We the keeper of our brother
We the guardian and prison guard
Water cannon them, tase them, why not
Galvanized by righteous hysteria
We ride high, whip in hand
While our fear roams free
Releasing the hounds
To return always in time
For next Utopian stampede
* 原來我們已經來到這樣的時代。
https://www.facebook.com/markliu8/posts/10154105928754429?hc_location=ufi
Round them up
The weak, the lost, the downtrodden
Their voices muted and stolen
Invisibility too visible all of a sudden
Break them, bind them, brand them
To shelter and to slaughter
The present crushing a future
Of which they know nothing and shall have none
Wretched beasts that they are
Wandering pieces of wilderness
Blemishes on the face of the earth
So round them up
For such is our burden and birthright
We the keeper of our brother
We the guardian and prison guard
Water cannon them, tase them, why not
Galvanized by righteous hysteria
We ride high, whip in hand
While our fear roams free
Releasing the hounds
To return always in time
For next Utopian stampede
* 原來我們已經來到這樣的時代。
https://www.facebook.com/markliu8/posts/10154105928754429?hc_location=ufi
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