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You Have No Name

you have no name, no form 
when satisfied, you��re like nothingness 
when unhappy, you��re perceived as pain
in a breeze, a landscape 
in memories snatches of melody, certain phrases 
brief flowering and fading 
blood and tears 
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and warm-bodied mammals 
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caused me to be born by chance in this world 
to seek you out 
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Winter Solstice

someone burns paper money in the street 
it��s the day of the winter solstice 
flames light up the trees that line the road 
we, the living, turn ourselves in shadows 
so as to get closer to the departed dead 
in streets, at the foot of walls, in the courtyard of houses where our 
dear ones once lived 
loss and remorse bring home to us the existence 
of another world 
as dark as the earth 
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Round Jade

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when things settle, I see a patch of light 
barely visible: what could it be?
this greenish glow, I��ve never noticed it before 
next thing, my hand comes into contact with 
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as I wind its cotton string around my fingers 
I can��t remember who gave it to me
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but this subdued light remained a stranger 
it shed no light on the objects around it 
as if sightless 
sombre as the glint in a blind woman��s eyes


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Six Lines

it��s raining, but this is not the mood of rain 
it��s autumn, but this is not the cold of autumn 
a piece of music when it is not being performed 
a thought in a head when the rest of the body has died 
the meaning of life beyond words, truth��s most secret 
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Some People Don't Say Much

some people don��t say much 
they are neither mute nor introverted 
saying only what��s necessary 
speaking only when courtesy demands it 
floating on the surface of speech 
this is how they are all their lives 
summed up in a few phrases 
some people live like epitaphs 
long years reduced to a sentence or two 
soberly like headstones they stand there 
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Life

life is a vacancy 
inhabited by people 
male and female 
as random as a meeting on a train 
as close to one another as these lives are 

life shakes us up 
so hold me a little more tightly 
at the station we get off, shed hot tears 
a butterfly flies in 
passing back and forth without let


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Me and You

me and you: we met, fell in love, lived together 
me and you: we lived apart, for a certain stretch of time 
my pity and my pain, for you 
your attachment, your unhappiness, for me 
me and you: the soul��s intimacy, isolation 
all these things are random 

like you, I result from the random 
meeting, falling in love and living together of parents 
from the random foods they ate 
from a randomly acquired gender 
we grow up to be blown around by random winds 
the random world shakes us up like dice 
for the sake of an outcome 
those red dots: drops of blood 
six: two lines of tears 
only these two are necessary


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Rain

when nothing else is going on 
rain is a big event but when some event 
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rain becomes background 
some remember it, some don��t 
years later, when everything��s in the past 
the rain comes back to us once more 
pattering as it falls 
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Scenario

when I��ve finished this cigarette, I will make my way to the banquet 
travelling across the city in a taxi late in the afternoon 
then I��ll come to a brightly lit dining table 
one by one good friends will arrive, each one of them feeling just a little keyed up 
vivid lights will shine briefly in their faces 
and reflect in the spotlessly white tableware, thereafter 
increasingly dirtied as a day��s sunset sinks in lip-smeared wine glasses 

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