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It's Lulu Island, 3 August 2025. After supper—green figs tender with sunlight, sweet vinegar from yesterday’s pickled jar, and reheated Alfredo—I sat on the balcony and watched the conifer. Stillness below, a street without cars, without haste. My lime water, iced, caught the light. Michael, the Franco-Danish ufologist, has been in my conversations lately. We speak of inner things: the trance of smart devices, the mind’s eye dwindling. He says cafés aren’t cafés anymore. People forget how to look, how to linger. I tell him of Arthur in Japan—how he'd stare into blank walls like a monk gazing at emptiness. Lately I ask machines to speak like poets, and they do. They mimic Elizabethan verses and the old wistful lilt of Tagalog ballads. I pick blackberries along the path to Tim Hortons. "¡Moras!" I shout like a child. My friend Mora, whose blood flows with Andes mist, would smile. Today, I bought lemons. I meant limes, but lemons are all right. / blackberry morning— / a fig's ghost on my fingers / and the street still sleeps
现在是 2025 年 8 月 3 日，露露島。晚餐后，阳光下嫩綠的无花果，昨天醃制的甜醋，还有重新加热的阿尔弗雷多义面，我坐在阳台上，望着那棵针叶树。楼下靜謐无声，街道空无一车，一片悠閒。我的冰镇青檸水在阳光下闪闪发光。最近，我常和那位法丹混血的 UFO 研究专家麥可聊天。我们谈论内心深处的事情：智慧型装置的迷醉，以及思維的衰退。他说，咖啡馆已经不再是咖啡馆了。人们忘记如何观察、如何駐足停留。我跟他讲起在日本的亚瑟，他会像僧侶凝视虛空一样，对着空白的墙壁发呆。最近，我让机器像詩人一样说话，它们真的做到了。它们模仿伊莉莎白时代的詩歌，以及塔加洛语民謠中那古老而忧伤的韻律。我沿着通往蒂姆霍頓咖啡店的小路采摘黑莓。我像个孩子似的喊道：「莫拉！」我的朋友莫拉，她血液里流着安地斯山脈的薄霧，她会笑的。今天，我买了黄檸檬。我本来想买青檸，但黄檸檬也可以。/ 黑莓的清晨 / 指尖殘留无花果的痕跡 / 街道依然沉睡
On the 14th of April of 2015, I walk to the Richmond Public Market, I first climbing the stairs outside. Inside, the wide atrium-like building is like a garden in a jungle surrounding, I imagine. Already quite hungry, I trot to Captain Wa, the food vendor, to get noodles with squid, fish, and tofu, as well as hot tea. As I eat, a handsome First Nations man in a purple T-shirt walks by. Then a handsome, stocky Jewish fellow walks by. A few minutes later, I begin to thirst, so I get a cold Mint Bubble Green Tea at the vendor QQ Bubble Tea and Coffee. I sit by the stairs to sip. A threesome family sits eating nearby, the man being black, the woman being Oriental, and the child being a hybrid. Addicted to Bubble Tea, I get another one, this time at Peanut's. It is a cold Green Apple Bubble Green Tea. It is delicious. I take the escalator down. On my way to the washroom, I notice a big aquarium full of probably giant red Alaskan king crabs with barnacles on their legs. They remind me of extraterrestrials, somehow. At the bookstore, I buy a heavily illustrated green botany book in sinograms. I left it on top of a box a month ago and it is still there. It is $14. I take the escalator up. Addicted to Bubble Tea, I spend my remaining coins on a cold Lychee Bubble Green Tea. It is delicious with even bits of white lychee flesh.
2015 年 4 月 14 日，我步行前往列治文公共市场，先是爬上了外面的階梯。市场内部寬敞的中庭式建築，让我感觉彷彿置身于丛林之中。我当时已经有点餓了，便小跑到小吃攤「瓦船长」那里，点了一份面和一杯热茶。面里有魷魚、魚和豆腐。我吃着吃着，一位穿着紫色 T 恤的英俊原住民男子从我身边走过。接着，一位身材魁梧、相貌英俊的猶太人也走了过来。几分鐘后，我开始觉得口渴，于是在「QQ 珍珠奶茶与咖啡」买了一杯冰镇薄荷珍珠綠茶。我坐在階梯旁慢慢品嚐。附近坐着一家三口吃東西，男人是黑人，女人是東亚人，小孩是混血儿。我喝珍珠奶茶上癮，于是在「花生家」又买了一杯。这次是冰镇青蘋果珍珠綠茶，味道好极了。我搭扶梯下楼。去洗手间的路上，我注意到一个大水族箱，里面养着大概是体型巨大的阿拉斯加红帝王蟹，蟹腿上长满了藤壺。不知怎的，牠们让我想起了外星生物。在书店里，我买了一本图文並茂的綠色植物学书籍，上面用的是汉字。一个月前我把它放在一个箱子上，现在还在那里。这本书 14 塊钱。我搭扶梯上楼。我对珍珠奶茶还是有癮，于是用剩下的零钱买了一杯冰荔枝珍珠綠茶。味道好极了，里面甚至还有白色的荔枝果肉。