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My Body Clashes into History
What do we want fromthe failure that’s coming?Brave enough,a hand has held it upbut full of surrendering
The other besieged handshave joined into a circle.But I’m reckless and free.I beat the black clouds of historywith my fist!
A storm is determined to come.Gunpowder or mercury, each has its say.I turn into an alchemistand draw from my shoulder holsteran imaginary pistol!Or a thermometer.
Brutally, my body clashes into history!
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Meng Lang
Meng Lang (1961–2018) was born in Shanghai as Meng Junliang. He was an important member of an avant-garde poetry group in the 1980s and early 1990s and was a cofounder of several independent journals in Shanghai. He moved to Hong Kong and died of lung cancer in 2018.
