Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Robert Hass's poem "Some of David's Story"

http://poetrydaily.net/poem.php?date=14700

I read the poem aloud, to myself, in the sunny afternoon. I was back from Starbucks, in the middle of a messy room, sleepy and disoriented because of the sleepiness, my intro still needing 6 more pages. Gosh, the poem is breathtaking. I thought of the crappy poems and fiction about 6/4 that I've read. About youth, love, sex, political ideals and disillusionment, nothing could be better than this piece. Without fancy phrasing, it just tells a little story, the ending of which is even predicable. The suggested sadness cannot even be said to be "profound." Yet, everything about love, about the time when the world just started to unfold in front of you as it was, is there. And all I can do, as a reader, is--simply to remember, to feel.

Monday, March 22, 2010

"To a Young Poet" by Mahmoud Darwish

Brilliant!!

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=238836

Thursday, March 18, 2010

爱好

Eugene不知怎么知道angels都长着翅膀,很笃定地说,鸟儿们也有翅膀,它们是angels! 且不论逻辑缺陷,我觉得这说法好可爱:)

一直没有记他最大的爱好,是对工程机械类事物的激情。大概是工程师爷爷和学工程的爸爸还有舅舅的真传。一两岁,看到爸爸的工具就两眼放光,摆弄玩具工具能玩好久。至今已拆坏遥控车一辆,挂钟一个。两岁的冬天不断因为流感病在家里,偶尔给他看电视,迷上了动画片Bob the Builder系列。家里要是有什么东西坏了要修理,对他来说定是天大的趣事。从此认识了所有建筑工地专用车和器具,专有名词说起来,如数家珍。对任何建筑修理土木机械相关事情,无不聚精会神,在家的时间,多数以Bob自居,指着墙上他贴的Bob图画说是他自己照片。各类拼图玩具积木lego更是因情形被他指定为沙砾水泥,各种建筑材料不一而足,每天忙于运输修桥铺路。除此之外,Eugene另有奇异爱好——吸尘器。家里没有大吸尘器给他玩,就每次去Costco时要求去吸尘器货架玩样品。摆放在外面展示的所有类型,他都要我们帮着拿下来研究,附带管子有多长,有没有刷子,开关在哪里,扶手怎么放平调方向,吸进去的灰尘收集在哪里,脏盒子怎么拿下来清洗,等等等等。一般的大吸尘器都比他还高还大,他定要自己推推看,每次玩半天,恋恋不舍。天然喜好对学习真是有影响的吧,因为这样的兴趣,Eugene第一本会背的小书题为_Machines at Work_,给他读了两次,他就滚瓜烂熟。

难道,爱古典音乐又有点多愁善感的Eugene, 以后,也会去学Engineering?

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

亲爱的,我在鼓励你催你行动的时候,也在劝自己。

抑郁的朋友,坏脾气的我,春天了吗,樱花都落了,这是不是黑暗的最后,
最后以后,我们都会快乐吗?你看你看,生活都把你炼成这样柔韧坚强了,我
不知道该哭该笑。
我都知道,你的痛苦,也是我白天暗夜里,神伤的感受。