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Terra cotta soldiers
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by J. Loh今天&|r%fmG5ce
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such vivid affairs one could not tell今天gi*[}3a W;A~
in the midnight silence今天vu!H Nm
and I knew nothing about the basement
+I5C0J n+etv5[0 where rats and cockroaches fought among themselves
f qijt x7N0 I was alive, but couldn't walk nor bounce around今天y_8P(g ru$y:sI;{7u]
as a black swan or a white cat
`^-UVe.T K~(H0 while you said, come join the soldiers of the cockroaches.
a}vu O&dq%rO.]%_0
"y C`f*A&L0 Why not rats, I asked.
4HI3Eg5S0 one inch seemed one million miles away今天u:YQ1m,H;xd_
with two worlds apart
u2ROX)ML!^h }0 there was something inside me I couldn't reach
Xx,j5ay m0 "tear me into pieces", you said,
yd.By f*|__0 "nothing is authentic or genuine as you will see 今天 Z2o?wLA:j
in pieces of me"今天Go `}Jl F*D
今天,q/Z7VD SF
I was alive, but couldn't walk as a living being今天"z"@m,^,|6P&P{ C!V
the world surrounding me
H$_!}Rql:Z"hE;Jp0 was a tiny drop of the rain, dripping down
_6nRR \[0 from a pigeon's wing-tip今天-g%R8e;D~BM
time turned into a grain of sand --
:HPB*Y.~.w0 -- the sole truth of the universe今天3`BgZK$Ja\
NPUr-}xR7A0 with sore and pain in my back今天)Q^ Z1x n^ xEN
I couldn't go too far from my flesh nor bring the true pieces of me
+LTFq u)n.gyY0 to the silent tides今天.l] f5A%[#nq
I couldn't touch the shades of solidity今天8a`BmTK*S
while my door was cracking --
4mC o5c/|/W0 the boundary of myself was disappearing今天qL'|p\
something completely foreign was reshaping今天$}?*Xc#gl|&\;m
I felt the dim light of the rainy day came inside me
}/|3j'r*p!M$m J`'M0 and shed on the cracked floor 今天QCk[ [$Ot1N s
when curtains were still tightly shut今天,{ ~KfQ"pE
(ynaa2zv;G9dAl4xd0 Gapping, sobbing, and yelling in pain今天 O/M2H.^@a!p
I felt the dead man moving out of my body
"nC zn6B$\/Y0 and the grain of sand was free-flying今天y\9Nf.tUY
in the pouring rain
#?@@+Tl&s2X`0 love or being loved was a state of quantum 今天.]i5E\F]!G^
-- rats or cockroaches didn't matter --今天"V vU(W/G1ox$Ds
when a terra cotta soldier was walking
$\E$m&Z@x@1Q*i0 in the mighty wind.
#h9a-H#I O-TR0
o-nN.S/Ac:l0 Sept. 6, 2015 written in BJ
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k0~D,K s1E+o9|0 附中文翻译:今天YuI2O+n&PUJ'L
今天)L"QQ4I d ~
9{~/sp#s(v+A_~VpB0
a dead cat bounced once or twice
a dead man walked as a soldier from Qin dynasty
who dreamed about climbing the Great Wall
across the vast northern wasteland
and only found himself turned
into a ghost in the bushes
like a shapeless shadow of wind
今天&~]f n!V l3\{[such vivid affairs one could not tell今天gi*[}3a W;A~
in the midnight silence今天vu!H Nm
and I knew nothing about the basement
+I5C0J n+etv5[0 where rats and cockroaches fought among themselves
f qijt x7N0 I was alive, but couldn't walk nor bounce around今天y_8P(g ru$y:sI;{7u]
as a black swan or a white cat
`^-UVe.T K~(H0 while you said, come join the soldiers of the cockroaches.
a}vu O&dq%rO.]%_0
"y C`f*A&L0 Why not rats, I asked.
4HI3Eg5S0 one inch seemed one million miles away今天u:YQ1m,H;xd_
with two worlds apart
u2ROX)ML!^h }0 there was something inside me I couldn't reach
Xx,j5ay m0 "tear me into pieces", you said,
yd.By f*|__0 "nothing is authentic or genuine as you will see 今天 Z2o?wLA:j
in pieces of me"今天Go `}Jl F*D
今天,q/Z7VD SF
I was alive, but couldn't walk as a living being今天"z"@m,^,|6P&P{ C!V
the world surrounding me
H$_!}Rql:Z"hE;Jp0 was a tiny drop of the rain, dripping down
_6nRR \[0 from a pigeon's wing-tip今天-g%R8e;D~BM
time turned into a grain of sand --
:HPB*Y.~.w0 -- the sole truth of the universe今天3`BgZK$Ja\
NPUr-}xR7A0 with sore and pain in my back今天)Q^ Z1x n^ xEN
I couldn't go too far from my flesh nor bring the true pieces of me
+LTFq u)n.gyY0 to the silent tides今天.l] f5A%[#nq
I couldn't touch the shades of solidity今天8a`BmTK*S
while my door was cracking --
4mC o5c/|/W0 the boundary of myself was disappearing今天qL'|p\
something completely foreign was reshaping今天$}?*Xc#gl|&\;m
I felt the dim light of the rainy day came inside me
}/|3j'r*p!M$m J`'M0 and shed on the cracked floor 今天QCk[ [$Ot1N s
when curtains were still tightly shut今天,{ ~KfQ"pE
(ynaa2zv;G9dAl4xd0 Gapping, sobbing, and yelling in pain今天 O/M2H.^@a!p
I felt the dead man moving out of my body
"nC zn6B$\/Y0 and the grain of sand was free-flying今天y\9Nf.tUY
in the pouring rain
#?@@+Tl&s2X`0 love or being loved was a state of quantum 今天.]i5E\F]!G^
-- rats or cockroaches didn't matter --今天"V vU(W/G1ox$Ds
when a terra cotta soldier was walking
$\E$m&Z@x@1Q*i0 in the mighty wind.
#h9a-H#I O-TR0
o-nN.S/Ac:l0 Sept. 6, 2015 written in BJ
Gst&C eh0
&NK^+~z fH^^0
k0~D,K s1E+o9|0 附中文翻译:今天YuI2O+n&PUJ'L