The Question

摘要

In between strata where you couldn't draw a breathrndeep time is ticking, in pools that are poisoned and forgotten,rnin deserts where nomads drive trucks shimmering like a woman's dress across salt pans,rnthe long seconds, the hazy hours, the mysterious years,rnneither fast nor slow;rna human shakes his Mickey-Mouse watch,rnGoofy wags his tail and Minnie scolds,rneverything is normal and speeded up,rntraffic across the city bridge a bracelet of energy,rnskyscrapers hyperventilating in sunlight and rain;rnthe human runs then stops, runs again;rnMickey is thrown into a skip, his dippy head 'ticks' 'tocks'rnwith innocent, mischievous eyes;rnwhere was I; nature's return; some mutation isrnalready breeding in the oceans' green reactors, somerngeneralist about to make good out of a bad situation;rnspeed the repellant we put onrnto fend off extinction in the waste placesrnwhere the tap is dry above the empty bucket.