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by Qiu Xiaolong


  wears me out, flashing in the flowers,

  your bare feet, your soft hand: the stress

  of memory strips me of waking hours.

  But we are flattened, framed in the zoom

  of one moment, click, and cloud and rain

  approaching fast, a doomful gloom

  scurries across the horizon again,

  Oh that is all I know, all I see.

  Mother, you drink the cup for me.

  “There’s no cup in the picture,” Yu said in bewilderment.

  Chen wasn’t sure if the last image about the cup came from Hamlet, in which the queen drinks the poison for her son. In his college years, he had read a Freudian interpretation of it. He vaguely remembered.

  “It’s about Hamlet and his mother,” Chen said, deciding not to explain any more. “There are more things in heaven and earth than in a case report.”

  “I’m damned,” Yu said, shaking his head like a rattle drum.

  Qiu Xiaolong

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