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THIS MONTH 这个月

8月 1, 2025

THIS MONTH

This month I didn’t write much,
Hardly wrote anything.
I wrote about last year last month,
The demolitions last year in June.
Small local chief
Destroys international art.
Also this year.
For me, the main difference
Is I am not there.
I didn’t go,
Stayed with wife and child.
And so I didn’t
Write very much.

MW 2025/8/1

这个月｜维马丁

这个月没有写多少
基本上什么都没有写
上个月写去年的事
去年就是六月拆房
小当地秘书
拆国际艺术
今年也拆
主要的差别
对我来说
我不在那边
今年没去
今年跟着妻子儿子
这样就没有
写了很多

2025.7

Ma Jinshan
LIVELIHOOD

In front of
The mayor,
My boss
Acts like me
In front of
His face.
Like a dog.

Translated by MW in July 2025

生计｜马金山

在市长
的面前
我老板
如我在
他面前
像条狗

Ma Jinshan
ON THE GRASSLANDS

A flock of sheep
With lowered heads,
Grazing their own
Shadow.

7/28/25
Translated by MW in July 2025

大草原上
马金山

一群羊
在低头
啃吃草地上
自己的
影子

2025.7.28

Ma Jinshan
2025

The flood carries the fish away.
The flood carries hogs away.
The flood carries trees.
The flood carries cars.
The flood carries houses away.
The flood carries people away.

7/28/25
Translated by MW in July 2025

2025
马金山

洪水把鱼冲走了
洪水把猪冲走了
洪水把树冲走了
洪水把车冲走了
洪水把房冲走了
洪水把人冲走了

2025.7.28

标签：animals, art, authority, cars, 维马丁, demolition, destruction, disaster, 马金山, fish, flood, houses, life, Ma Jinshan, Martin Winter, people, trees, water, writing
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不在 AWAY

6月 30, 2025

picture by Meng Zhi

AWAY

Away from the environment,
how do I write in Chinese?
Especially a foreigner!
Looking at photos
and videos,
I realize again
when friends take a picture
they want to remember,
remember beauty,
being together,
and also
the vapid aggression,
destruction and ruin.

MW June 28th, 2025

picture by Meng Zhi

不在
（给上苑艺术馆2025年艺术家）

维马丁

不在中文环境
很难写中文
尤其是老外
看到朋友照片
和视频
就更知道
朋友拍的
都是想记得
记得美
记得在一块
也记得
荒谬霸气
坠毁空虚

2025.6.28

picture by Meng Zhi

AWAY

Away from the environment,
how do I write in the language?
Especially a foreigner!
Looking at photos
and videos,
I realize again
when friends take a picture
they want to remember,
remember beauty,
being together,
and also
the vapid aggression,
destruction and ruin.

MW June 28th, 2025

英语也可以说任何语言，包括英语，离开了环境很难写出来。而那些荒谬等等，川普美国感觉也是。

In English I can talk about writing in any language, also English, while being away from the environment. I wrote this poem in Chinese in response to what happened last year and this year at a certain place in China. But the absurd aggression, the senseless destruction and ruin could also be Trump and Musk’s ‘work’, right? Or Putin and so on.

标签：absence, aggression, art, artists, beauty, communication, corruption, decision, demolition, destruction, distance, empty, environment, expression, feeling, fluency, foreign, foreigners, friends, friendship, greed, history, hurt, idiots, landlord, language, memory, people, pictures, politics, power, representation, ruins, Shangyuan Art Museum, society, speaking, speech, time, times, ugliness, ugly, village, water, work, writing
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ZUR ERINNERUNG AN EINEN MENSCHEN – 朱剑 Zhu Jian

2月 15, 2025

Zhu Jian
ZUR ERINNERUNG AN EINEN MENSCHEN
因为纪念一个人，写了这么几首诗
朱剑
Übersetzt von MW im Februar 2025

GEDENKEN

Auch die Mörder
gedenken der Opfer,
mischen sich in die Menge,
glauben noch, weil alle Masken tragen
wird sie keiner erkennen.

2020-02-07

《悼念》
朱剑

凶手也在悼念
被害者
混在人群中
以为都戴口罩
就没人认得出

（2020.2.7）

LI WENLIANGS WITWE: WIR WARTEN NOCH IMMER AUF DAS ERGEBNIS DER UNTERSUCHUNGSKOMMISSION

Der Inhalt ist schon lange gelöscht,
bleibt nur der Titel.
So haben die Alten Geschichte geschrieben,
eine Zeile ist schon genug.

2020-02-27

《李文亮遗孀付雪洁:我们还在等调查组的处理结果》
朱剑

内容已被404
只剩这个封面标题
不过按古人写历史的方法
这么一行字也就够了

（2020.2.27）

NACH WUHAN

Nach Wuhan kommen,
vorher ist mir da zuerst
der Aufstand von Wuhan eingefallen.
Das Ende der Kaiser.
Jetzt denk ich nur an einen Menschen,
an Li Wenliang.

2023-03-14

《到武汉》
朱剑

以前到武汉
首先想起的是
武昌起义
现在是一个人
李文亮

（2023.3.14）

ANDENKEN

In der WeChat-Gruppe
tauschen positive Nachbarn
Erfahrungen aus.
Einer sagt,
“Mit hohem Fieber
war es so arg,
ich hab an den Dr. Li denken müssen,
dem ist es sicher
noch ärger gegangen,
so schade um ihn.”
“Welcher Dr. Li? Li Wenliang?”
“Genau der!”

2022-12-21

《纪念》
朱剑

群里
阳了的邻居
在交流体验
一个说
“我高烧的时候
都烧傻了
一直脑子里在想那个李医生
他肯定更难受
可惜呀。”
另一个问她
“哪个李医生
李文亮？”
“对！是他”

（2022.12.21）

UNVERMEIDBAR

Im Jahr 1 nach der Pandemie
bin ich zum zweiten Mal in Wuhan.
Komm wieder nicht an zwei Namen vorbei,
beide sind auch aus meiner Zeit.
Ein Name ist der verstorbene Dr. Li Wenliang,
der andere ist Fang Fang,
die (Tagebuch-)Schriftstellerin.

2023-08-04

《绕不开》
朱剑

疫情结束的这一年
这已是我
第二次来武汉
还是绕不开
与我同时代的
两个名字
一是死去的医生李文亮
一是活着的作家方方

（2023.8.4）

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SHANGYUAN ART MUSEUM CLOSING EXHIBITION 2024

11月 8, 2024

【上苑现场】北京上苑艺术馆2024国际创作计划闭幕展
Beijing Shangyuan Art Museum Closing exhibition 2024
参展艺术家 Participating artists：

布木布泰 Bumubutai，程大钜Daju Cheng，大树 Stakic G（塞），大卫David Brubaker（美），段维国Weiguo Duan，定溪Dingxi，道日娜Daorina，付中和（禾子）Zhonghe Fu，何戚明Qiming He，罗应龙Yinglong Luo，李念奴Niannu Li，刘冰凌Bingling Liu，梦露Menglu，孟志Zhi Meng，琼芯Qiongxin，石祥宇Xiangyu Shi，汤军 Jun Tang，涂海燕Haiyan Tu，王晓燕Xiaoyan Wang，王心Xin Wang，韦安 An Wei，维马丁 Martin Winter（奥），潇潇 Xiaoxiao，行云 Xingyun，姚丽双 Lishuang Yao，赵珈漩 Jiaxuan Zhao，詹明昭 Mingzhao Zhan，张宗希 Zongxi Zhang，朱鹏飞 Pengfei Zhu。

Du Fu (712-770)
SPRING VIEW

State’s gone, landscape bleeds.
Spring city in weeds.
Tears on blossoms,
birds caw parting calls.
Three months of fires,
home news payed in gold.
My white hair is thin,
I don’t need a pin.

Tr. Martin Winter, Nov. 2024

春望
杜甫

国破山河在
城春草木深
感时花溅泪
恨别鸟惊心
烽火连三月
家书抵万金
白头搔更短
浑欲不胜簪

困

先是新冠
以后就骑车
摔伤
现在恢复晒太阳
明天去法兰克福
书展
也许火车上
能睡一点

2024.10.15

月

晚上看镰刀
早霞通红
冬至美大选
很多担心
一直都有

2024.11.8

美国大选

是的美国
真的很美
是的中国
也是很美
是的奥国
其实很美
是的有时候
哪一个国家
都很可怕

2024.11.5

Calligraphy by Bumubutai

picture by 白纸

标签：art, exhibition, exhibitions, friends, history, literature, memory, painting, people, poetry, sculpture, sculptures, season, seasons, Shangyuan Art Museum, society, time, view, work, writing
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NOVEMBER BEES – 美国大选

11月 6, 2024

pic by Li Wei

TRUTH

truth
wasn’t enough
hope
wasn’t enough
reason
wasn’t enough

people don’t care
what truth is anyway
what is the reason
what is the hope
what is the truth

MW 2024.11.6

美国大选

是的美国
真的很美
是的中国
也是很美
是的奥国
其实很美
是的有时候
哪一个国家
都很可怕

2024.11.5

NOVEMBER BEE

Maybe
Biden should have stayed in the race
Maybe
Biden’s vice president
should have been Stacy Abrams
Maybe
Junebe
Julybee….
November bees
hardly fly out any more.

MW 2024-11-06

标签：animals, beauty, bees, countries, election, elections, month, nation, nations, november, people, ruminations, season, seasons, stuff, stuffed animals, truth, values
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WHAT – 我 – SAY – 说

11月 2, 2024

Photo by Zhan Mingzhao

WHAT

Martin Winter

This text begins with a poem in Chinese. It is not very long, you can continue reading below.

我

我到底是什么人
怎么样的人
锅到底是什么人
怎么样的人
蜗牛到底
是什么人
怎么样的人
蝴蝶到底
是什么人
怎么样的人
蚂蚁到底
是什么人
怎么样的人
躺着到底
是什么人
怎么样的人
站着到底
是什么人
怎么样的人
爬着到底
是什么人
怎么样的人
我能不能
休息再说
明天再说
下周再说
等等再说
就稍微
等等

2024.6.22

I wrote a poem titled What in June 2024, when they had almost finished demolishing Shangyuan Art Museum in a village near Huairou outside of Beijing. I was there as a resident artist. Poetry is important at this place. Some of the founders of Shangyuan Art Museum were poets, including Cheng Xiaobei, the most prominent representative of the museum in China. I was invited for my poetry, this and last year. Mostly for poetry in Chinese. The poem What is 我 in Chinese. 我 doesn’t mean ‘what’, but the two words sound somewhat similar. The Chinese poem came first.

The poem is rather repetitive. Wo daodi shi shenme ren, zenmeyang the ren? This is the first two lines in the official Romanization for Mandarin Chinese. Romanization means using an equivalent to the characters in Latin letters, more or less. Letters of European languages with diacritical lines for the tones. There are four tones in Mandarin Chinese, plus the absence of a tone in some syllables. I am not using the diacritical marks here for now. ‘Wo’ in this poem is in the third tone. It is a little drawn out, so ‘wo’ sounds rather like ‘woah’. ‘Woah’, what is this?

Guo daodi shi shenme rén, zenmeyang de rén? I started to write ‘the’ in front of ‘rén’ just now. Rén means human or person. The tone in rén goes up, a bit like a question. Zenmeyang means ‘how is it’, it can be a greeting. The ‘z’ is not a voiced ‘s’, it’s rather like saying ‘tsih tsih’ when you imitate a bird or a cricket, a chirping sound. Tsen meh yang, three syllables. How, in what way, how is it, what kind of? The ‘of’ in ‘what kind of’ is ‘de’ in Chinese. Written d-e, but it sounds very similar to ‘the’, like in What the flower are you talking about?

Guo and ‘wo’ are both one-character words. Each character is one syllable in Chinese. Guo is pot. A pot for cooking, or a pan. A wok. Guo daodi shi shenme ren? Shenme is ‘what’. Daodi is something like ‘actually’, literally ‘at the bottom’ or ‘in the end’. Shi is pronounced without a vowel, or rather like ‘ugh’ after a ‘shsh’. Shi means ‘to be’, ‘is’. Pot actually is what person? What kind of person?

WHAT

What person
what kind of person
what kind of person
am I in the end

What person
what kind of person
what kind of person
is pot in the end

What person
what kind of person
what kind of person
is snail in the end

What person
what kind of person
what kind of person
is moth in the end

What person
what kind of person
what kind of person
is ant in the end

What person
what kind of person
what kind of person
lies down in the end

What person
what kind of person
what kind of person
stands up in the end

What person
what kind of person
what kind of person
crawls in the end

Can I please
take a rest first

Can I please
wait until tomorrow

Can I please
wait till next week

Can I please
just wait a little

Please can I
wait

MW June 23rd, 2024

There is a lot of repetition. Maybe that’s the main drawback. I just haven’t figured out how to make something with less repetition and the same effect otherwise.

What is this about? Why is this person asking these questions? Why the request for being allowed to wait in the end? What does it have to do with the demolition of the museum?

I am glad there is no obvious direct connection. No, there is no specific hidden explanation either, none that I am aware of. I wrote many poems at the time, one per day on average. They are all rather different. More realist, less strange. More directly connected to my reality. But I think there is a strong connection.

WOAH?

Das chinesische Gedicht war zuerst da.
维马丁 ist mein chinesischer Name. Weh Mahding, so klingt es ungefähr. Martin Winter auf Deutsch oder Englisch.

Alles andere geht so:

Wo 我

Wo daodi shi shenme ren
zenmeyang de ren
Guo 锅 daodi shi shenme ren
zenmeyang de ren
Woniu daodi
shi shenme ren
zenmeyang de ren
….

Auf Chinesisch ist jedes Zeichen eine Silbe. Zwischen den Wörtern in einem Satz gibt es Abstände, auf Deutsch oder auf Englisch etc., aber nicht auf Chinesisch, außer hier oben in der Umschrift. 我 wo bedeutet ‘ich’. 我到底是什么人, das ist die erste Zeile auf Chinesisch. 锅到底是什么人, das ist die dritte Zeile. Statt 我 ‘wo’ steht am Anfang 锅 ‘guo’.

Wo, oder eher ‘Woah’ von der Aussprache her, klingt ähnlich wie “guo”, oder auch “wok”, in der kantonesischen Aussprache. Ein Topf oder eine große hohle ostasiatische Pfanne. So ist das Gedicht entstanden, aus diesem Klang.

Woah, was ist das für ein Mensch,
was für eine Art?
Wok, was ist das für ein Mensch,
was für eine Art?

Woniu 蜗牛, oder ungefähr ‘Woahniuu’, ist eine Schnecke.

Woaniuu, was ist das für ein Mensch,
welche Art von Mensch?

Schnecke, was bist du für ein Mensch,
welche Art bist du?

Und so weiter!

Dann kommt auf Englisch “moth”, da ist auch dieses “o” oder “oah”. Nein, noch kein “sch” dazu… 🙂

Auf Chinesisch hab ich an diesem Punkt umgeschaltet. Hudie 蝴蝶, ungefähr ‘huuhdi-eh’, sind Schmetterlinge. Nichts mit ‘oah’, aber eben kleine Tiere wie Schnecken.

Chinesisch war zuerst da, Englisch auch schon am selben Tag.

Motte, was ist das für ein Mann,
welche Art von Mann?

Dann kommt die Ameise. Mayi 蚂蚁, ungefähr ‘maah-iih’.

Ameisen, was sind das für Menschen,
auf welche Art?

Nach der Ameise kommt schon ‘liegen’, oder im Liegen: Tangzhe 躺着, ungefähr tahng-dschöah.

Liegen, was sind das für Menschen, auf welche Art?

Nach liegen kommt stehen.

Stehen, das sind welche Menschen, auf welche Art?

Nach stehen kommt kriechen.

Kriechen, was sind das für Menschen, was für eine Art?

Kann ich mich bitte zuerst ausruhen?

Kann ich es bitte morgen sagen?

Oder nächste Woche?

Kann ich bitte ein bisschen warten,
ein bisschen
warten?

ICH

Was bin ich für ein Mensch,
welche Art von Mensch?
Was ist der Topf für ein Mensch,
welche Art von Mensch?
Was ist die Schnecke für ein Mensch,
welche Art von Mensch?
Was ist der Schmetterling für ein Mensch,
welche Art von Mensch?
Was ist die Ameise für ein Mensch,
welche Art von Mensch?
Im Liegen, was bin ich für ein Mensch,
welche Art von Mensch?
Im Stehen, was bin ich für ein Mensch,
welche Art von Mensch?
Im Kriechen, was bin ich für ein Mensch,
welche Art von Mensch?
Kann ich mich bitte zuerst ausruhen?
Kann ich es bitte morgen sagen?
Oder nächste Woche?
Kann ich ein bisschen warten,
bitte ein bisschen
warten?

MW 2024-6-22

Painting by Wang Xiaoyan

说

我觉得什么
都不想说
锅觉得什么
都不想说
蜗牛它什么
都不想说
蝴蝶也肯定
都不想说
蚂蚁她觉得
都不想说
躺着还觉得
都不想说
站着我觉得
都不想说
爬着也觉得
都不想说
蚂蚁它能
休息再说嘛
明天再说
下周再说
等等再说嘛
就稍微
等等

2024.10

SAY

I think I don’t
want to say anything.
The pot doesn’t want
to say anything.
A snail doesn’t want
to say anything.
A moth doesn’t want
to say anything.
The ants, they don’t want
to say anything.
Lying down I don’t
want to say anything.
Standing up I do not
want to say anything.
Crawling I don’t
want to say anything.
Maybe the ant
could take a break?
Wait until tomorrow?
Wait until next week?
Maybe just wait?

MW October 2024

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GEPOSTETER INHALT – 查文瑾 Cha Wenjin

10月 22, 2024

Cha Wenjin
GEPOSTETER INHALT

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2022-11-03

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2022.11.3

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Shangyuan Art Museum in the FAZ

8月 20, 2024

I am in Vienna. From April till late June I was in China, in the countryside near Huairou, northeast of Beijing. I was invited by Shangyuan Art Museum. They built that place from 2003 to 2007. It’s like a sprawling campus. They invited artists there each year, all kinds. Cui Jian, other rock musicians, experimental sound projects. Painting, sculptors, dancing, film, photography, performance. And poetry. That’s where I came in. I was there last year too, in spring and in fall.

They demolished the big exhibition hall in June. The village party committee. In concordance with policy laid down by Winnie the Poo.

It took me a while to write down something a little longer than a poem.

I know it’s rather strange. I wanted to write much more. And I did, in poems in June, when it happened. I miss our community of artists. Being there at that time was living on a different planet. Not just different from Vienna. Different from Beijing, from the village around it, from the mountains. Even very different from being next door in the other places built by artists on the same hill and existing with the same village and party functionaries. It was and is crazy, but it is at the same time a very ordinary situation in China. There is no reason, no feasible reason for the demolition. 没文化, yes. No culture. In the structure of the state, as it comes out here. As it comes out in many places. In sharp contrast to itself, to the image the state also needs to project. Nothing new. Same inherent brutality as ever in the last 100 years maybe. Or more. Playing out in different ways. Not just in China.

I can’t write it like this, not without a lot of context. My poems are more balanced, hopefully. This text, as it has appeared in German, as I can show you in English, is like a long poem. It has to be strange.

信息

你说我提供的

信息不够

我说得看

如果你在

布拉迪斯拉发

在科希策

等等小城

在奥地利

在匈牙利

也许看到

或看不到

也许知道

多少人死

多少人活

四十人走

一个人回

不那个人

他也不在

有新的房子

有纪念碑纪念牌

六十年后

七八十年

中国呢

发生了什么

现在呢

你在的时候

完全不同

感觉不同

有那么多

也那么美

那么作朋友

多时候有

没有人受伤

她一直唱

废墟里唱

山上也唱

没有人受伤

每人都受伤

每人都有

伤痕不同

在的时候

真朋友圈

感觉多好

当外国人

活在异乡

人家都当

当陌生人

我在我国

当陌生人

一直都有

还是不同

2024.8

INFORMATION

You say I don’t give enough information.
It always depends.
If you are there in Bratislava,
In Kosice, in the small towns,
In Austria, in Hungary.
Maybe you see, maybe not.
Maybe you know
how many died, how many survived.
One in forty came back.
No, even those aren’t here.
There are new houses.
There are memorials
sixty years late, seventy, eighty.

What happened in China?
What is happening now?
It’s very different
when you are there.
The feeling is different.
You know you don’t know,
you don’t know most of it.
But there is so much.
So much beauty.

So much companionship,
most of the time.

Nobody was injured,
she sings in her song,
there in the ruins,
up on the mountain.
No one was injured.
Everyone was.
Everyone is
in different ways.

It’s great to be there
among the people
most of the time.
To be a stranger
in a strange land
among many strangers
in their own country.

I am a stranger
in my own country
most of the time.
But I’m not sure,
not like in China.
It is just different.

MW August 2024

Die FAZ findet es auch seltsam, aber sie bringt es. Es sei zuwenig Information, findet eine Freundin. Ich hab ihr am Telefon und auch persönlich einiges erzählt. Das vermisst sie im Text. Als ich damit fertig war, hab ich auch bemerkt, dass fast nichts über mich drin ist. Auf Englisch noch weniger. Und nix über die anderen KünstlerInnen, fast nix. Sehr gute Bilder und andere Sachen haben sie gemacht. Frauen und Männer, viele sind erst in der Abrisszeit gekommen. Haben einfach so gewohnt wo halt Platz war. Aufgenommen was ging. Ich war mittendrin. wir waren füreinander da. Niemand ist verletzt worden.

Das ist eine Zeile in einem Lied. Ich war dabei, als die Sängerin es in den Ruinen aufgenommen hat. Es klingt fröhlich und harmlos, eine Wanderung auf den Berg, aber der Abriss ist drin. Wieviel da verletzt und zerstört worden ist, wissen wir, die dort waren. Auch andere, die ähnliches erlebt haben. Das sind sehr viele. Praktisch alle, die Kunst machen, und viele andere.

Abgerissen wird aus vielen Gründen. Das Land hat sich sehr schnell entwickelt, bisschen wie Westdeutschland, Österreich und Westeuropa in den fünfziger und sechziger Jahren, aber auch anders. Noch brutaler. Noch mehr kapitalistisch und gleichzeitig diktatorisch mit einer angeblich sozialistischen Partei an der Macht. Pinochet auf angeblich sozialistisch. Nur noch viel größer. Alle Welt macht mit. Profitiert, manchmal. Tut dann wieder besorgt. So kann es doch nicht gehen? Aber das Land ist brutalisiert. Die Leute sind es auch. Vielen geht es besser. Manchen viel besser. Für sie hat es funktioniert. Yi Sha gehört auch dazu. Die Leute wissen, dass der Preis, den manche zahlen, zu hoch ist. Sie wissen, dass vieles passiert, von dem sie lieber nicht sprechen.

Juliane Adler von fabrik.transit kommt aus der DDR. Sie kennt einiges. das Verschweigen besonders. Aber das kennt man und macht man ja bei uns in Österreich immer noch. Ohne Diktatur. Wie soll ich darüber schreiben? Juliane schreibt auch “nur” Gedichte aus ihrem Leben in der DDR. Ich habe viele Gedichte aus der Abrisszeit im Juni und davor. Da ist viel drin an Information. Wer wissen will, wie es in China ist, kann die Gedichte lesen. Viele sind auf meinem Blog. Manche werden in Zeitschriften sein, später in einem Buch. Natürlich würd ich gern mehr in Zeitungen geben. Bin oft zu zaghaft.
Liebe Grüsse!
Martin

标签：art, austria, BRATISLAVA, china, demolishing, demolition, Europe, FAZ, government, history, kosice, memorial, memory, nationalism, nationality, people, poetry, slovakia, world
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best of july 七月精选

8月 1, 2024

Best of July 七月精选:

Actually, I like this one best, although it’s from May.
https://banianerguotoukeyihe.com/2024/07/17/unicorn-%e7%8b%ac%e8%a7%92%e5%85%bd-einhorn/

Picture by Bumubutai 布木布泰

And this one didn’t get many views, but I like it. https://banianerguotoukeyihe.com/2024/07/15/missing-vermisst/

The one with the most views was this: (scroll down if you don’t read German)
https://banianerguotoukeyihe.com/2024/07/02/im-museum-das-abgerissen-wird-6-gedichte/

Yes, most posts from July are about what happened in June. I know it happens all the time, people told me a lot. I have seen it before, just didn’t live at the demolition site then.
https://banianerguotoukeyihe.com/2024/07/04/weh-%e7%97%9b/

Most of us there became poets. Seth wrote some good ones, here are two:
https://banianerguotoukeyihe.com/2024/07/05/%e8%89%b0%e9%9a%be%e6%97%b6%e5%88%bb%e6%9d%a5%e4%ba%86-hard-times-are-coming-%e8%b5%9b%e6%96%af%e5%8d%97%e9%9d%9e-%e7%bb%b4%e9%a9%ac%e4%b8%81-%e8%af%91/

Photo by White Paper

And there are the goats. They got views, too.
https://banianerguotoukeyihe.com/2024/07/05/%e8%8d%89%e7%be%8a-grass-goats-%e7%99%bd%e7%ba%b8-white-paper/

And Leo and I went into the mountains with friends.
https://banianerguotoukeyihe.com/2024/07/28/%e9%98%bf%e5%b0%94%e5%8d%91%e6%96%af%e5%b1%b1-in-the-alps/
And here is one from April, posted a few days ago:

And don’t forget my new book, UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 人权宣言

https://banianerguotoukeyihe.com/2024/07/24/%e4%ba%ba%e6%9d%83%e5%ae%a3%e8%a8%80-universal-declaration-of-human-rights-allgemeine-erklarung-der-menschenrechte/
See you, take care! 保重，希望再见！

标签：alps, art, austria, demolition, friends, life, memory, mountains, people, poetry, Shangyuan Art Museum, Vienna
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ÄHRE SEI GOTT

7月 28, 2024

ÄHRE SEI GOTT

Ähre sei Gott
Ähre sei Gott
Ähre sei Gott in der Höhe

Knospe sei Gott
Knospe sei Gott
Knospe sei Gott in der Höhe

Blüte sei Gott
Blüte sei Gott
Blüte sei Gott in der Höhe

Zwetschke sei Gott
Zwetschke sei Gott
Zwetschke sei Gott in der Höhe

Spinne sei Gott
Spinne sei Gott
Spinne sei Gott in der Höhe

Schmetterling sei
Schmetterling sei
Schmetterling Gott in der Höhe

Regen sei Gott
Regen sei Gott
Regen sei Gott in der Höhe

Gott in der Tiefe
Gott in der Tiefe

Halleluja
Halleluja

Gott in der Erde
Gott in der Erde

Halleluja
Halleluja

Gott in der Luft
Gott in der Luft

Halleluja
Halleluja

MW April 2024

标签：bread, corn, ear, ears, fields, food, glory, god, grain, high, honor, language, life, low, nature, praise, religion, song, word, words, work
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UNICORN 独角兽 EINHORN

7月 17, 2024

Sculpture by Duan Weiguo

UNICORN

It’s a horse
in a cloud,
it is foam
from the sea,
Aphrodite,
a unicorn.
It’s very light.
How many nights
has it leaped out,
how many days
till it was done?
It is a cloud,
it is a flower,
can it grow up
into a person?

MW May 2024

EINHORN

Ein Pferd,
eine Wolke,
der Schaum
aus dem Meer,
Aphrodite,
ein Einhorn,
nicht schwer.
Wie viele Naechte
springt es heraus,
bis es herauskommt,
wie viele Tage?
Eine Wolke,
eine Blume,
wird es noch gross,
wird es ein Mensch?

MW Mai 2024

独角兽

一匹马
一朵云
海浪泡
泡沫生
女爱神
独角兽
它不沉
多少夜
跳出来
做出来
多少天
一朵云
一朵花
还长大
还做人

2024.5

Sculpture by Duan Weiguo

SUN

sun makes
everything beautiful
mornings & evenings
with infinite patience

trees make
the sun beautiful
birds too

goats call
no matter what

god makes
mornings & evenings

god is sun
or moon
or wind and the train
or the plane
and the rain
in our hearts

MW May 2024

太阳

太阳让
一切美好
早上傍晚
一直徒劳

树让
太阳更好
鸟叫

羊叫
无论怎样

神作
白天昼夜

太阳是神
月亮是神
神就是风
还有火车
飞机和雨
在人心里

2024.5

Sculpture by Duan Weiguo

标签：animals, art, beauty, Duan Weiguo, foam, god, gods, hearts, history, labor, life, love, memory, people, rain, sculpture, sculptures, sea, Shangyuan Art Museum, sun, wind, work, 段维国
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SCHAU 看

7月 16, 2024

SCHAU

schau die sterne
schau die kerzen
schau du selber
das land
schau in wien
der zentralfriedhof
und viele andere
die hälfte der gräber
niemand ist da
keine nachkommen
gestern
live
zerstörung
am tatort
musik
eine lesung
und nachher
die sterne
und kerzen
und schauen
und so

MW 2024-06-15

看

看星星
看蜡烛
看自己
国家
看维也纳
中央墓园
以及其他的
一半坟墓
都没有人管
没有后代
昨晚
现场
毁灭
现场
音乐
朗诵
晚了
以后
就看
星星
还有
蜡烛
就看
这些

2024.6.15

标签：candles, country, demolishing, demolition, graves, history, light, lights, look, looking, memorial, memory, people, ruins, Shangyuan Art Museum, stars, thoughts, time, Vienna
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KLANG – 聲音 – SOUND

7月 15, 2024

KLANG

Von der Plattform
oben am Berg
sieht man Ruinen
des Kunstmuseums,
am besten mit Fernglas.
Abrissklang
hallt durchs Tal.
Was für eine große Fabrik!
Es gibt keine größere Industrie
als Abriss
im Dorf Shayukou,
Gemeinde Qiaozi
im Bezirk Huairou
nördlich von Peking.

MW Juni 2024

聲音

從山上平台
看藝術館
用望遠鏡
能看廢墟
強拆聲音
遠遠響應
像大工廠
北京懷柔
橋梓鎮
沙峪口村
拆藝術館
目前沒有
更大企業

2024.6.18

SOUND

From the platform
up on the mountain
you can see the ruins
of the art museum,
best bring field glasses.
Sounds of demolition
reverbrate through the valley.
What a big factory!
There is no bigger industry
than demolition
in Shayukou village
in Qiaozi town
in Huairou district,
north of Beijing.

MW June 18, 2024

标签：art, capital, demolition, district, evil, factory, far, industry, mountain, mountains, museum, people, profit, Shangyuan Art Museum, sound, sounds, state, town, view, village, villages, villains, work
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MISSING – VERMISST

7月 15, 2024

Pictures by Zhan Mingzhao

MISSING

Shangyuan Art Museum,
the ruins of the big exhibition hall
in the middle of nowhere
are a metaphor
for the state.

For the state of culture.
For the state of art.
No reason, except the state
of reasoning.
A monument of sorts.

I miss it.

MW July 2024

Pictures by Zhan Mingzhao

VERMISST

Shangyuan Art Museum,
die Ruinen der großen Halle
sind eine Metapher für den Zustand.

Für den Zustand der Kunst,
den Zustand der Kultur
und so weiter.
Kein Grund, abgesehen vom Zustand
der staatlichen Gründe.
Irgendwie ein Denkmal.

Ich wär gern noch dort.

MW Juli 2024

Artworks by Zhan Mingzhao

标签：art, culture, demolishing, demolition, empty, feelings, history, language, languages, lot, memory, monument, museum, people, plain language, plot, real estate, reason, reasons, rot, ruins, Shangyuan Art Museum, society, state, time
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问 QUESTION

7月 12, 2024

Photo by Bumubutai 布木布泰

QUESTION

In the pandemic
behind the masks,
the rotten came out.
Insecurity,
everything you would
rather forget.
Everyone knows
the leaders don’t know,
nobody knows
what to do.
In the pandemic
the truth came out,
unbearably real.
Is it over now?
Who wants to say?

MW May 2024

Photo by Liu Tao 刘涛

问

疫情季节
面具后面
恶心出来
不安全感
所有宁愿
忘记的事
大家都知
领导不知
谁都不知
到底怎办
疫情季节
事实出来
不能忍受
现在好吗
谁又敢说

2024.5

Picture by Bumubutai 布木布泰

树

树就是树
星星是星星
风是风
冷是冷
小小的人
缩进屋里
快要睡去

早上复活

2024.5

Picture by Hezi 禾子

TREE

the tree is the tree
the stars are the stars
including the spoon
the wind is the wind
the cold is the cold
tiny people crawl in
disappear in their sleep

and rise when they can

MW May 2024

标签：cold, disease, forgetting, health, history, knowledge, leaders, leadership, life, memory, pandemic, people, poetry, question, questions, reality, repression, security, sleep, society, speaking, speech, stars, state, tree, truth, unknown, violence, wind
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STERNE 星星 STARS

7月 9, 2024

STERNE

Gestern hat jemand
ganz viele Kerzen
in die Ruinen gestellt.
Zwischen den Kerzen
sind sie gestanden,
haben Geige gespielt
und einen Psalm rezitiert.
Mutter und Tochter.
Nachher haben Xiao Xiao und ich
Gedichte gelesen.
Kerzen sind kein Problem,
Kerzen sind wie der Mond
in den Ruinen.
Du kannst Geige spielen,
kannst lesen und singen
was immer du willst.

MW 14. Juni 2024

星星

昨晚有人
放很多蜡烛
在废墟上
站在中间
拉小提琴
背诵圣经
一对母女
最后还有
诗人朗读
蜡烛不怕
月亮不怕
在废墟里
蜡烛不怕
可以拉琴
可以唱歌
可以读诗

2024.6.14

STARS

Last night someone
put down many candles
on the ruins.
Then they stood there,
played a violin
and recited a Psalm.
Mother and daughter.
At the end two poets
did some of their stuff.
The candles are fine,
like the moon, don’t be scared,
the candles are fine in the ruins.
You can play your violin,
you can sing,
you can recite
whatever you like.

MW June 14, 2024

标签：art, bible, candles, culture, danger, demolishing, demolition, freedom, history, memory, moon, museum, music, pain, people, poetry, Psalter, reading, reciting, religion, scripture, Shangyuan Art Museum, song, stars, trauma, violation, violence, violin, writing
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草羊 Grass Goats – 白纸 White Paper

7月 5, 2024

Photo by White Paper

草羊

后院的草不多
少的很

后院的羊不多
少的很

草吃秃了

羊吃光了

草还会长

羊还会生

11:04
04.07.2024
沙峪口
白纸

GRASS GOATS

Author: White Paper

There isn’t much grass in our backyard,
almost none.

There are not many goats in our backyard,
very few.

Grass got eaten.

Goats got eaten.

Grass will grow.

Goats will be born.

7/4/24, 11:04 at Shayukou.
Translated by Martin Winter

标签：animals, country, death, goats, grass, land, life, meat, people, Shangyuan Art Museum, white paper
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艰难时刻来了 – Hard Times Are Coming 赛斯(南非) Seth Deacon 维马丁译

7月 5, 2024

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

标签：art, 维马丁, demolition, 赛斯, hard, people, poetry, Seth Deacon, Shangyuan Art Museum, song, times, translation
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WEH 痛 HURT

7月 4, 2024

WEH

Das Shangyuan Art Museum
liegt weit von der Stadt
auf dem Land in der Natur
gleich bei den Bergen.
Heuer ist es auch ganz nah
an der Gewalt.
Der absurden Gewalt
hinter der Gesellschaft.
Viel zu nah.
Man hat es betrogen.
Man hat ihm Gewalt angetan.
Die Berge bleiben,
das Unkraut steht tief.
Das Museum ist hin,
was soll weiter gehen?
Kunst machen
heisst immer
am Abgrund stehen,
gleich hinter der Gesellschaft.
Manchmal halt zu nah.
Jeder weiss das.
Wenn es passiert,
tut es
weh.

MW 28. Juni 2024

Pictures by Hezi 禾子

痛

上苑艺术馆
离城市很远
跟乡下近
跟自然近
离山非常近
今年还有
离社会
背后的暴力
背后没道理
真的太近
有一种被诈骗
被强奸的感觉
山一直在
草木很深
艺术被毁灭
还能怎么样
艺术家
一直都
离社会背后
的深渊很近
有时候太近
大家都知道
发生的时候
就是
很痛

2024.6.28

HURT

Shangyuan Art Museum
lies far from the city,
close to the country,
close to nature,
very close to the mountains.
This year it is also
very close to violence,
to senseless absurdity
in its society.
It just got too close.
It got fucked over,
it got violated.
The mountains are there,
the weeds are deep.
Art lies destroyed.
How can it go on?
To be an artist
has always meant
to be close
to a gaping hole
that lies just behind.
We know.
And when it happens,
it hurts.

June 28, 2024

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IM MUSEUM, DAS ABGERISSEN WIRD: 6 Gedichte 我, 累, 自然, 写字, 见面, 被拆的艺术馆里

7月 2, 2024

IM MUSEUM, DAS ABGERISSEN WIRD

Hier und Wien,
das sind zwei Planeten.
Hier und Peking in der Stadt,
zwei verschiedene Planeten.
Hier und auf dem Berg,
verschiedene Planeten.
Sogar die Nachbarn
sind nicht auf demselben Planeten.
Obwohl die Nachbarn
engere Verbindungen haben
als Planeten
im selben Sonnensystem.

MW Ende Juni 2024

MÜDE

In diesen Tagen
seit über einer Woche,
seit wir es wissen,
macht es uns Sorgen.
Gestern war noch
die letzte Ausstellung.
Und zwei schwarz-weiße
Performances,
gestern und heute.
Am Abend zusammen essen,
ein bisschen fröhlich sein.
Heute bin ich müde.
Der Abriss geht voran.
Ich bin
einfach nur müde.
Es hat gerade erst
angefangen.

MW 2024—06–03

photo by Duan Weiguo

ICH

Was bin ich für ein Mensch,
welche Art von Mensch?
Was ist der Topf für ein Mensch,
welche Art von Mensch?

Was ist die Schnecke für ein Mensch,
welche Art von Mensch?
Was ist der Schmetterling für ein Mensch,
welche Art von Mensch?

Was ist die Ameise für ein Mensch, welche Art von Mensch?

Im Liegen, was bin ich für ein Mensch,
welche Art von Mensch?
Im Stehen, was bin ich für ein Mensch,
welche Art von Mensch?
Im Kriechen, was bin ich für ein Mensch,
welche Art von Mensch?

Kann ich mich bitte zuerst ausruhen?
Kann ich es bitte morgen sagen?
Oder nächste Woche?

Kann ich bitte ein bisschen warten,
ein bisschen
warten?

MW 2024-6-22

ZEICHEN

Letztes Jahr im April,
als ich angekommen bin
im Shangyuan Art Museum,
da geh ich entlang
an der Ausstellungshalle
bis nach hinten zur kleinen Brücke.
Auf der linken Seite
ist eine hohe graue Mauer
mit Stacheldraht oben.
Wie ein Gefängnis.
Ich hab gefragt,
was ist da drüben?
Das ist das Haus
des Dichters Xi Chuan.
Aber er ist nie da,
er war noch nie da.
Seltsame Sache.
Ich hab nicht nachgefragt.
Jetzt ist die Ausstellungshalle weg.
Von der Bibliothek
nach hinten
über die Ruinenfläche
sieht man deutlich
die graue Mauer.
Ich glaub darauf
könnte man schreiben,
vielleicht nur ein Zeichen.
Shame, so wie shameless,
also schamlos.
Scham oder Schande, ein Zeichen.
Links ein Ohr, daneben ein Herz.
Natürlich habe ich keine Ahnung,
was alles dahinter steht.
Wahrscheinlich sehr viel.
Aber ich hab mir immer gedacht,
die Mauer ist hässlich.
Und jetzt gibt es Platz,
ganz viel Platz.
Jetzt wär der Effekt
ziemlich gut.

MW 22. Juni 2024

NATÜRLICH

Der Künstler
aus Serbien sagt,
das erste Mal hier,
das war vor acht Jahren.
Er konnte kein Chinesisch.
Er spazierte weit hin und her.
Er dachte, China,
besonders auf dem Land,
sei viel besser als Europa.
Zurück daheim
hat er das immer erzählt.
Jetzt meint er,
überall auf der Welt
sind die Leute ungefähr gleich.
Was er früher gedacht hat,
davon glaubt er nichts mehr.
Ich hör zu und denk mir,
das klingt ganz natürlich.

MW 2024-06-19

EIN TREFFEN

Der Wanderarbeiter fragt,
was war denn dort drüben?
Ich verstehe nicht.
Er sagt, er ist erst nach
dem großen Abriss gekommen.
Ein Museum, sag ich,
eine große Galerie.
Ich weiß nicht, ob er versteht.
Aber er weiß,
das ist ein abgelegenes Dorf.
Wir können hier auch
nichts Besseres mieten.
Ich wünschte, ich hätte
ihn nicht wegen dieser Sache
getroffen.

MW 2024-06-20

被拆的艺术馆里

这里跟维也纳
是两个星球
跟北京市
两个星球
跟这里山上
甚至跟邻居
都两个星球
虽然邻居
都有很多
比同一个太阳系
更密切的
联系

2024.6.26

累

这几天
一个多周
知道了后
一直焦虑
昨天还有
最后展览
黑白行为
晚上大家
一块吃
一块玩
今天累
强拆进行
主要感觉
就是累了
还刚开始

2024.6.13

我

2024.6.22

写字

去年四月
第一次来
上苑艺术馆
从前面走后面
沿着通道
经过展厅
到后面小桥
通道左边
灰色高墙
上面铁丝网
像监狱
那时候问
旁边是什么
是诗人西川
建设的房子
可是他不来
从来都不来
我觉得奇怪
但也不多问
现在展厅没了
从图书馆
后面的门
经过废墟
看到后面
灰色的墙
觉得墙上
可以写字
就一个字
也许可以写
恥
无耻的恥
当然有很多
我都不知道
应该有很多
为什么有今天
不过一直觉得
这墙很难看
而现在有空
有很大的空间
现在写
效果好

2024.6.22

上苑艺术馆

自然

塞尔维亚
艺术家说
第一次来
八年前
不会中文
走来走去
觉得中国
尤其乡下
比欧洲好
回去以后
跟谁都讲
现在觉得
世界大家
都差不多
以前幻想
全部没了
听着觉得
也很自然

2024.6.19

见面

农民工朋友问
这儿原来有啥
我先不明白
他說拆后才来
我說有博物馆
有大艺术展厅
他不一定明白
不过他知道
这村子很偏僻
肯定不能租
更好地方
但愿我们能
在更好的情况
见面

2024.6.20

标签：art, artists, beijing, body, character, characters, country, demolition, Europe, history, identity, meeting, memory, museum, nature, people, person, poetry, poets, self, shame, Shangyuan Art Museum, village, violence, writing, Xi Chuan
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星星 STARS

6月 30, 2024

STARS

MW June 14, 2024

星星

2024.6.14

标签：art, candles, community, danger, darkness, daughter, demolition, evening, family, fear, film, history, light, memory, moon, mother, music, night, people, poetry, Psalter, recital, religion, ruins, Shangyuan Art Museum, sound, stars, violence, violin, voice
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痛 HURT

6月 28, 2024

HURT

June 28, 2024

痛

2024.6.28

标签：art, beauty, danger, hurt, memory, people, society, violence
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累 TIRED

6月 28, 2024

TIRED

These days
more than a week
after we knew
we have been worried.
Yesterday we had
a last exhibition.
Today was the second
black & white performance.
In the evening we get together
to eat and have fun.
I am tired.
The demolition is going ahead.
I am feeling
mainly just tired.
And it has just begun.

June 13, 2024

累

这几天
一个多周
知道了后
一直焦虑
昨天还有
最后展览
黑白行为
晚上大家
一块吃
一块玩
今天累
强拆进行
主要感觉
就是累了
还刚开始

2024.6.13

星星

2024.6.14

标签：art, candles, demolition, memory, music, people, poetry, Shangyuan Art Museum, stars
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字 CHARACTER

6月 24, 2024

CHARACTER

Last year in April
when I first came
and walked through the campus
of Shangyuan Art Museum
from the front to the back
along the big exhibition hall
to the small bridge
on the left
there was a wall
a tall grey wall
crowned with barbed wire.
Looked like a prison.
What is this
I asked.
It is the house
of the poet Xi Chuan.
But he never comes
he’s never been here.
I didn’t ask more.
Now there is no exhibition hall.
From the library
from the back door
you can see over the ruins
all the way
to that grey wall.
There is enough space
to write on the wall.
Maybe just one character
maybe “shame”.
That “shame” of “no shame”.
Yes I do know
that I don’t know
very much at all.
There must be reasons
why it went this way.
But now there is room
there is very much space
now the effect
could be not bad.

MW June 22, 2024

写字

2024.6.22

标签：art, barbed wire, beauty, character, contrast, demolition, effect, memory, people, poetry, regret, ruins, shame, Shangyuan Art Museum, ugly, wall, walls, writing, Xi Chuan
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HEALTH 健康

6月 24, 2024

HEALTH

I heard the pandemic
and being demolished
produce the same feeling.
The class of the people
who manage the buildings,
the class of the people
who guard all the gates,
the class of the people
who sell drinking water,
the class of the leaders
they all would be feeling
very healthy.

MW June 22nd, 2024

健康

听说疫情
感觉
和
被拆感觉
有一点像
物业阶级
看门阶级
卖水阶级
领导阶级
威风十足
统统感觉
非常健康

2024.6.22

标签：class, control, daily life, health, life, people, politics, power, society
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都在 ALL THERE

6月 23, 2024

ALL THERE

The people up on the mountain
are almost all there.

The buildings down below the mountain
are almost all there.

The color on people’s faces
is almost all there.

The mountains up on the mountain
they should all be there.

Every one can
be in the picture.

MW June 21, 2024

都在

山上的人大部分都在
山下的楼大部分都在
脸上颜色大部分都在
山上的山还应该都在
都可以入照

2024.6.21

标签：buildings, demolishing, demolition, mountain, mountains, people, picture
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我 WHAT

6月 23, 2024