my eternal springtime 我 的 恒春 iris johnston Librarian Do not mistake his eloquence
He got his first when he was 3
for the softness of a fop.
standing naked on the shore.
He is hard, and his absence
He kissed it
is a broken bottle hidden in blonde silt.
and thanked it
他 说“哦你好美”
and bashed it on a rock
He says “yes, you are beautiful”
then ate both eyes, but, such a good boy
while massaging lonely housewives with an oil
he gave the tongue and cheeks both to his mother
more expensive than his rent
along with every cent the housewives leave.
for fourteen hours every day.
And like a bottle buried he is lost until he slices
他说 “ 没有饿, 米没有香.
the finger searching dumbly
睡眠没有累不舒服.”
for treasures in the silt.
He says ‘food is not delicious without hunger and sleep without fatigue is just a nuisance.” His family are fishermen, they catch them in nets made of polyvinyl fencing stolen from a school.
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