Poem

Fang Xianhai

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Rot

cities
rotting flesh
desk drawers
rotting secrets
sleeping tablets
rotting unspoken words in throats
everything is similar
when you feel despair

I question
those men and women infected with dark habits
about how many surnames fill the death pits of justice and bristle with stick-like pen-strokes

© Translation: 2009, Simon Patton and Guan Zhen

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© 2000, Fang Xianhai

Fang Xianhai

Fang Xianhai

Fang Xianhai was born on one of the Zhoushan Islands (he doesn\'t like to specify which) near the coastal city of Ningbo, Zhejiang province in November 1971. In 1999, he graduated in print-making from the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts, but he developed his creative impulses in other directions, including both poetry and photography. His first poems were published in 2001 on the internet under th...

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Rot

cities
rotting flesh
desk drawers
rotting secrets
sleeping tablets
rotting unspoken words in throats
everything is similar
when you feel despair

I question
those men and women infected with dark habits
about how many surnames fill the death pits of justice and bristle with stick-like pen-strokes

© 2009, Simon Patton and Guan Zhen

Rot

cities
rotting flesh
desk drawers
rotting secrets
sleeping tablets
rotting unspoken words in throats
everything is similar
when you feel despair

I question
those men and women infected with dark habits
about how many surnames fill the death pits of justice and bristle with stick-like pen-strokes

© 2009, Simon Patton and Guan Zhen

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