The Czars - Drug

不知為何
想起這首歌
一整天不斷反覆
應該聽了有上百遍吧

然後停止
像來時一樣突然

似乎身體裡有某個開關
比機器人更虛無的某種執迷
來去不由己


You are a drug to me
I never ever thought it otherwise
And I love the lies you've told to me
While looking me directly in my eyes

This is not ecstasy, but it's better than cocaine
and you know that I will miss you when you're gone
but I'm not equipped to play this game

You know your words
They don't mean anything to me
They only serve to fatten up the prey
And when it's time to take them to the slaughterhouse
you slice their throats, continue on your way

This is not jeopardy
and it's not your high school prom
and you know that I will miss you when you're gone
But I'm not equipped to be your mom

You are a drug to me
I never ever thought it otherwise
And I love the lies you've told to me
while looking me directly in my eyes

Mirrors are no defense against nausea by Peter Horn

（René Magritte, Reproduction Prohibited, 1937）


Every morning
I switch on my electric razor
to trim my beard
into respectable proportions.

The face in the mirror
has grown stranger
over the years
and I have refused it permission
to use my name.

I tried very hard not to see
what happened behind the mirror.
Nobody likes to be reminded
of the shortness of life.
But the flaking mercury
made the mirror a window
into the chasm.


From：The Rivers that Connect us to the Past & Survivors, p.86

John Berger X Sebastião Salgado / The Spectre of Hope (2002)

I, I am here. I exit.

But also something else happening. Because they are looking at Sebastião, and they are looking at the camera, and they know that they are looking at the world.

So they address a question: what are you? You, out there in the world? Or, is there anything else out there?

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It is not pleasant to die, lord, if nothing is left in life.
And in death nothing is possible, except on the bases of what is left in life.

It is not pleasant to die, lord, if nothing is left in life.
And in death nothing is possible, except on the bases of what one could have left in life.