Wednesday, January 18, 2006

与自由诀别之后


与自由诀别时他才二十五岁
妻子还在灯下赶稿
后来主角怎样了?

二十年,只有寒夜的风雨来探望过
出狱的前一年,妻子终于改嫁
昔日战友,转战商场

勉强找个可以歇息的地方
广告牌底下却躺着一只鸽子的干尸
国会大厦在远处倚着白云疲累的微笑

咳嗽药刮脸刀和上个月未缴的房租
立场和收场相互角力的结果,最后
转投执政党怀抱的国会议员收留了他做文员

Farewell to Freedom

He was only twenty five when he farewell the freedom
His wife under the lamplight was still rushing for her article’s deadline
What’s the latest update of our hero?

Twenty years, only winds and rains visited him in the cold nights
A year prior to his release, his wife remarried
The old days pals, changing new battlefield to commerce

Just managed to find a place to rest
A dry carcass of pigeon was laid under a billboard
Leaning on the clouds the Parliament building smiled wearily from afar

Coughing syrup shaving blade and unpaid rental of last month
Tugged a war between political stand and consequences, at the end
He became a clerk attached to a turncoat MP from opposition to ruling party


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