Cicada in shopping mall

 

Cicada in shopping mall

 

Everything is accommodated to boot

Groceries, clothes, covering head to foot

Restrooms, Restaurants, drinking bars

Even swimming pool, and racing cars

Everything is crystal bright in this dome

But for a cicada it is not a brooding home

Too brilliant to brood

Too sterile  for food

The marble floor and glass ceiling

No place to get an earthly life

So arid clear & clean, nowhere to cling

Even if I survive to land on a lily

 No way to let out my wildest singing

A  void  vacuumed of earth and dust

A deafening domain of fluorescent lust

 

包容万象商场，无所不有

食品杂货，衣饰，包你从头到脚

茶餐，厕所，酒吧

甚至泳池，甚至赛车

 

大厦水晶般的璀璨

但绝不是一只蝉的羽化之地

 

 

玻璃穹顶，大理石地面

不是尘世，生无所依

即使躲过清洁车，落在一枝百合上

我也无法纵情歌唱

这是一个真空无尘的世界

唯有物欲震耳欲聋地流转