Migratory birds ---- to Kuei-shien Lee

Migratory birds" 
---- to Kuei-shien Lee 

Written by Yan Yihu
Translated by Yifeng 





At the time while I was reading a poem “Those Friends In Prisons Still”
Chen Chao did the Dutch act
Then I saw a big bird 
Flying out from the inside of my body


Smelling like a specific toxin
Came the flavors of the poetry 
Together with the smell of death
Just as Haizi’s lying down on the rail
Yudi kissing a sword
Gemai drowning himself in a river
Xiaozhao’s freely falling his body

Not yet this year’s peach blossom had opened
The poet Wofu was gone with his innocent heart 
For making a sacrifice to the death
On October 1
Xu Lizhi ,a poet who was born in the 1990s
Gave a knock at the crazy machine with his steaming hot body
Which has been called the Nation’s Day 

On October 31
Chen Chao fell to death carrying all chains
During the funny times
The poet were put forwards
To play the part of lonely protesters
Are absent from the literary feast, are often they as the case
The land has been still asleep all times


My brothers whittled his own bodybones into bagpipes
Then sticked themselves into the hard land
Within one year
They three left one by one
I looked like a demon under Hamlet’s spell
“To be or not to be?”
Ah! Are your friends still in prison?
I am the migratory bird which you disliked
Holding myself in the wind
Without crying 
Even in the deeper dark night
I would also make a living shamelessly

2014.11.5 Huyi Xuan

Note:
1,“Those Friends In Prisons Still” was a sentence in the poem “Resident Birds” written by Kuei-shien Lee, who is a famous poet in Taiwan.
2,Chen Chao,Haizi,Yudi,Gemai ,Xiaozhao,Wofu and Xu Lizhi were the mainland poets who suicided themselves.


《候鸟》 ——致诗人李魁贤

我读《我的朋友还在监狱裡》时
陈超自杀了
那一瞬，我看见一只大鸟
从我身体里
飞了出去
诗歌的香味儿，像一种毒愫
传来死亡甜蜜的气息
一如海子卧轨，余地吻剑，戈麦投河
小招的自主性坠落
今年四月
桃花还没有绽放
诗人卧夫，就以赤子之身
祭奠了死亡
十月一日，90后诗人许立志
用他火热的身体
撞击了国庆，这座疯狂的机器
十月三十一日
陈超背负所有的锁链
坠楼身亡
可笑的时代
诗人成为惟一的抗争者
在文艺盛宴上缺席
土地还在沉睡
我的兄弟把自己的尸骨削成风笛
活生生插了进去
这一年三个
他们相继离去
我像一个魔症，中了哈姆莱特的咒语——
“活下去，还是不活？”
啊！您的朋友还在狱中吗
我就是你所鄙夷的
那一只候鸟
在风中抱紧了自己
您不要流泪啊
天再黑
我也要无耻地
活下去

2014.11.5於狐义轩