Two or Three Things from the Past

We must visit the exhibition

we must stand in line

with a serious attitude past

the portraits of those villains each of them

in line      all wearing

the same prison uniform confessing their crimes

their sins come

from somewhere else  it's as if

our obedience  becomes a boring crime

with great attitude   we walk in single file

our heads turn in unison from the left wall

to the right like products

being inspected     from different

sides      their serious attitudes

the same as if their crimes

are walking out from the wall

seriously  into our bodies


 Yu Jian