中国大好き

艰难时刻来了

他们这样說，
该收拾东西
（小心收拾）
胡闹和快乐
(也许还有机会）
和一种不敬
（也许能挖出来）
以及压不住自由的感觉
（把它擦灰尘）
放肆不顾一切
（再来玩一玩）
还有希望

2024年7月初
赛斯(南非）写，
维马丁 译

Hard times are coming

Or so I’m told
time to start packing away
(carefully)
our joy and mischief
(we might get the chance)
with irreverence and a
(to dig them out again)
sense of ungovernable freedom and
(dust them off)
reckless abandonment
(and play again)
there is still hope.

Seth Deacon, at Shangyuan Art Museum
in early July 2024

Photo by White Paper

Promise me

Seth Deacon

All you believers,
All you soldiers for a cause,
those of you who would build nations and tear them down
Those of you who are so sure
Of the line between us and them.
Between you and I.
(Even if you and I were once lovers, sisters, brothers)

Promise me you won’t make the world too small.

Because I am very much afraid

Of what happens when all of our fists and chests constrict so tightly we cannot breathe,
Never mind sing to each other.

I am afraid of what we’ll see in the mirror once there are no more enemies to look at
I am afraid I will never get to see you again

Or that if I do,
We will both be so changed we will not recognise each other

Or worse

We will be so changed we will not be able to look each other in the eye,
Because we will be too alike

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