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Poems by Yang Fei
费扬 Yang Fei · author of 《原初种族》 The Primal Race
A collection of bilingual poems — English and 中文 — on power, surveillance, gender, and freedom.
<Path of Exile>
Life is a river
I’ll let fate decide
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<Superior>
Sophistication is a borrowed power
From imagination that keeps people feel superior
The exact thing makes them inferior
Sophistication follows the same formula
It’s like learning 1+1 and then at the age of 99 still learning 100+100
Horde of believers
Counting 100+100 throughout their life
A rat race of feeling superior
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<losing side>
Treated as assets and “protected”
Treat themselves as assets and “protect themselves”
Dumb hoes is a description suitable for those things
Join them join him
The same philosophy to oppress the worthy
Pretty faces pretty clothes
Barely having a living soul
Treat them as equal you’ll see
That’s why I’m on the losing side
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<Split>
We’ve got different life philosophy
and she got picked up by the other traits that polluted side wanted
Life splits but share the similarity
Maybe it’s time to think about quitting and join them and sabotage it all
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<dumb rules>
She said “you’re forever dumb like that”
I said I know what you think but you don’t know what I think
I don’t play your rules
I’m your master you gotta aware
She said “yeah but you’re forever dumb like that”
I said yeah maybe
But I know your dumb rules and I know what you think
But you don’t know me at all
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<transparent>
“This is WAY better than porn”
When he says this, his peers are right there shooting the porn
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<He wants to>
He wants to make a game where there’s only one loser and everybody else wins
He didn’t expect that he’s gonna be the loser
And there’s a second rule added by others
If there’s no loser then there’s gonna be a winner
He stops the game immediately
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<creatures of wisdom>
His mouth is moving but there is not much coming out
He reads but there is not much digested
He wants to be seen as mysterious
And he wants to be taken unserious
And they want to appear as creatures with wisdom
And they want to appear no threats as simple animals
And they want all the benefit flow to them
Pulling up the profile
It says “what a perfect white lotus”
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《当我指鹿为马》
所有人每天对你指鹿为马
你却说
不被理解是一种自由
那我就知道
≧1个人正理解着你 而你也明白着
“不被理解是一种自由”是一种被理解后的自由
<When They Call the Deer a Horse>
Everyone calls the deer a horse to your face, day after day,
yet you say
being misunderstood is a kind of freedom.
Then I know
≥1 person is understanding you right now — and you understand it too:
that “being misunderstood is a kind of freedom” is a freedom that comes only after being understood.
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《天作之合》
每当他们吹响号角
我就知道又是一场丧事喜办
而那边又是一场场的丧事
真可谓天作之合
<A match made in heaven>
Every time they sound the horns,
I know it’s another funeral thrown as a feast.
And over there — funeral after funeral, the real kind.
Truly, a match made in heaven.
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<I’ll die after you>
The world is not dominated by posers
Or human beings is gonna collapse
Hope that get into these minions mind
No it won’t
They say
You said life is about expression
Aren’t we being loud enough
Aren’t we laughing loud enough
The whole country we have got fireworks
They have got money
Let’s make it boom
Yeah it sure is the case
Practically everybody can die without being useful
Why not make it you
Sacrifice being the big expression
After you
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<entertainment>
The negative thoughts about me
Is the negative reflection of yours
When you bring out the sword
Making bullshit in your toxic brains
With the greatest imagination you can ever have
While I’m laying here with my pure heart
You told me what you are
Clowns making a crowd
Clowns are loud and obvious
Real clowns never escape the fate of being
Real entertainment
In an absolute way
Not in your mouth
She tries to add a little bit of horrors
He tries to add a little bit of lust
Minions have millions of ways writing their own stories but they choose to suck anyway
Being a collective entertainment
Negative thoughts about me are just entertainment
Wouldn’t you see it clearly?
I’m all set
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<knights>
I come I protect
I’m the violence itself
She can’t see the problems
And that’s why they are under our control
Oh no
She’s part of the problem
She’s part of me
I’m part of the problem, but
Nobody knows
As long as nobody knows
Let’s do it when nobody knows
What else would you do
Wouldn’t you sing holy songs
About our victories
We are the problems they’ll never get rid of
But let’s make em the problems
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<audience>
They need an audience
I give them an audience
Practical God is what they are making fun of
Ungrateful bitches
“But I’ve got power over you”
Minions like you there are millions like you
Can’t kill the roaches so roaches always wining
But I forgive and love
Practical God is what they are ditching against
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<Knowing is suffering>
It would be 10 years since I left home
I’m glad I met someone like you my friend
It reminds me of a younger me
I know why people love young energy now
It is my turn to know now
And knowing is suffering
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<current affair>
I’m not your face front you could use and dump
I’m not your blood bag you could suck and leave
I’m not your cloud daughter, dad, mother, son, go raise your own
I have no idea what you are talking about
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<overstimulated>
There are a lot of things don’t excite me anymore
You’re not a saviour either
The cruelest thing is to view somebody as hope
Hope is cruelty
Peace is the saviour
They don’t know
Should they know
Somebody put the life weight on them once before
Behind the back
Who’s the saviour
Saviour of what
Life in confusion
As the train goes everything seems normal as if it should be like that always
We are all overstimulated
But the end of tunnel is cruelty
Because the trains have no stop
At least that’s what I feel
Will there be a stop?
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<sensitivity is a spam>
I touched the sky with zero confidence and I fell
I lived on earth with much confidence but I’ve fallen from the sky
So he doesn’t like me
She doesn’t believe in me
Everybody’s watching me
They know what I’m thinking
I know what they are thinking
So she doesn’t like me
He doesn’t believe in me
Because I lived on earth with much confidence but I’ve fallen from the sky
Tales going around saying how I touched the sky with zero confidence
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<bad vibe>
Stolen path or rightfully owned?
It is me who have this life
Blood stains all over the place
I recommend you get your own life
Every corner of the town
There are marionettes who don’t know they smell so strong
Because of the toxins inside of them
Pouring out like invisible streams
And streams unite together as an ocean
And people drown
And lost in it
Bad vibes
Avoid at all cost
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<woman>
What is it like to be a woman
Is that they fart a lot about your decisions
Is that they choose who you are
And help you because of their choice of who you are
And bury you because of their choice of who you are
Is that they want you to lose the voice
Is that you are a specimen for them to investigate
As long as you act your best interest
And have a bit piece of war mind
Which happens everyday
In everyone
What is it like to be a woman
Is that they think they have the power over you
Now shoot them in the head
Show them who’s the boss
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<sweet>
Grass is greener on your side
When you are in this middle of nowhere
Watching stars and clouds move
Dancing by the fire
Under the night sky
The grass is greener on your side
And I wanna breathe the same air you breathe
Because it tastes good like the fresh grass after the rain
Finally I, celebrate
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<I don’t love you>
What is it to be like you?
Till death we aren’t to be broken apart
What is it the taste in your mouth?
It says I don’t love you
You are one of the ten substitutes
What is it in your eyes you talk so loud but eyes barely blink
It says lying
While I’m lying in his bed
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