無聊讀首詩
2005-08-02 - 9:19 p.m.
整天在工作間裡細讀繁瑣細碎的合約文件，回到家裡又要為那兩頁長的無聊功課苦惱。生活了無生趣，想是時候讀點文藝的文字吧。在圖書館裡找到本舒巷城的選集，才讀了幾首詩，忽然想到一個新的小說題材。不知甚麼時候才可以寫成呢。〔希望不是空頭願﹞

〈郵筒〉　舒巷城

他投進去的感情很重──
雖然是薄薄的信封。

The Ball Poem, john Berryman
2005-07-31 - 3:30 p.m.
"The Ball Poem"
-- John Berryman

What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,
What, what is he to do? I saw it go
Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then
Merrily over—there it is in the water!
No use to say 'O there are other balls':
An ultimate shaking grief fixes the boy
As he stands rigid, trembling, staring down
All his young days into the harbour where
His ball went. I would not intrude on him,
A dime, another ball, is worthless. Now
He senses first responsibility
In a world of possessions. People will take balls,
Balls will be lost always, little boy,
And no one buys a ball back. Money is external.
He is learning, well behind his desperate eyes,
The epistemology of loss, how to stand up
Knowing what every man must one day know
And most know many days, how to stand up
And gradually light returns to the street
A whistle blows, the ball is out of sight,
Soon part of me will explore the deep and dark
Floor of the harbour . . I am everywhere,
I suffer and move, my mind and my heart move
With all that move me, under the water
Or whistling, I am not a little boy.