Chapter 27 "broken"
"broken"
one
Sitting deep in the night:
When the window has a patchy light,
The wind carries the dust, on the street
Running in the alley:
I want to curl up on the bald nib
A broken broken tone,
To express my broken thoughts.
two
Sitting deep in the night:
The night with sharp corners is cool in the crack of the window
Jealous of the remaining heat in the house,
nor spare my members:
But I'm going to draw it with my half-dry ink
Some broken broken patterns,
Because broken, broken is my thought.
three
Sitting deep in the night,
On the left and right are some ugly ghosts:
scorched desolate trees
Cry out on the frozen riverbank,
Compared to the gesture of despair,
as i want to be in broken consciousness
Revive a broken world.
Four
Sitting deep in the night,
Close your eyes and look back at the clouds and smoke of the past;
Ah, she is still a glamorous white lotus,
Leaning against Xiaofeng, all kinds of exquisiteness;
But I am neither sunshine nor dew,
All I have are broken breaths,
Like a group of rats locked in the rafters
Chasing, pursuing darkness and nothingness!
①Written in March 1931, initially published in "Modern Students" Volume 1, Issue 6, April 1931, signed by Xu Zhimo, and later included in "Tiger Collection".