1.
【To Peekers】
By Tian Yu Zhi
Please lay your hands on your heart
Feel the conscience, and ask yourself
Why you keep coming back here
When you should have
Played a few rounds of chess on a street corner
Like those old men do, until being checkmated by life;
Or gossiped tittle-tattles while spitting sunflower seed shells
Like those old women do, after their last sparks stamped out
If you don’t have an answer,
Please put "a peeker loser" sticker on your forehead,
Each time you come here —— you know
You are not welcomed, not YOU
A criminal often goes back to the crime scene
To check out on the victim, a sign of neurosis pervertion.
You know in your heart
You are part of the reason why she is here
Get a life. Stay out.
2021.8.20
2.
【To Lyrical Gossipers】
By Tian Yu Zhi
You have been naughty and busy lately
Stick your nose into other people's pants
Sniffing around
You rack your brains, arranging
level and oblique tones for harmony
Searching for antithetical couplets, and staled allusions
Paint other people's emotions with fake colors of
Showy, borrowed words, drawn only
Out of scant imagination and shallow observation
No matter how hard you have tried, nevertheless
They are still a low lifer's alley gossips in lyrical forms
With no heart, soul, or compassion
Maybe start from today, look very hard around yourself
See if you could find anything beautiful
In your own pathetic, unhappy life, and write about it, e.g.
That plate of pork tongues you love to chew on weekends
2021.9.7
3.
【To Losers】
By Tian Yu Zhi
2021.10.10
外兩首:
【妄言】隨感篇
文/天玉之
沒有根據的猜忌 評論 推斷
尤其是關於別人的私事
便是妄言。因為 ——
你不可能知道故事的來龍去脈 細節
你隻看到長篇電影裏一個表象的片段
妄言 不是好人品做的事。
它往往出於某種緣由 動機
有時是自己意識不到的動機,比如
貌似褒意的字裏行間裏
閃著銀針 透著幸災 醋意 豔羨
下筆之前 不妨先問一下自己:
我是在妄言嗎?我為什麽要寫這個?
因為自己心情不好 太孤獨寂寞?要知道 ——
妄言是改變不了他人的。隻會使自己愈加不快樂
不如擱下筆 去曬曬太陽 讓風吹走滿襟的晦氣
2021.10.2
【七絕】 花圃 (四支)
文/天玉之
葉茂源光水,
花香自有時。
語浮芯上雹,
壅土積天禧。
2021.4.16