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"Asking the Sky."

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"Tonight, a confusion of rain.

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Fresh breezes leaf
through the book.

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Dictionaries swell
with implication,

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forcing me into submission.

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Memorizing ancient
poems as a child,

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I couldn't see what
they meant, and stood

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at the abyss of
explication for punishment.

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Bright moon, sparse
stars, out of those depths

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a teacher's hands
give directions

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to the lost, a play of
shadow mocking our lives.

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People slide down the
slope of education on skis.

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Their story slides beyond
national boundaries.

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After words slide
beyond the book,

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the white page is pure amnesia.

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I wash my hands clean
and tear it apart.

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The rain stops."

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I say a few words
about this poem.

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Professor Fong just
mentioned when she was young,

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she was forced to
memorize classical poems.

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Yeah that is a typical
Chinese customs and tradition.

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In that way, I hated
poetry when I was little.

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You have to force something
you don't understand at all.

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So this poem is
kind of the irony,

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you can see it's the
relationship between poetry

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and my life, my childhood.

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问天

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今夜雨凌乱

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轻风翻书

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字典旁敲侧击逼我就范

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从小被补失不得要领

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禅寺的深渊旁我被罚站

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月朗星系

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老师的手从中指点迷津

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引致戏仿人生

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有人在教育的斜坡上滑雪

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他们的故事滑出国界

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词滑出了书

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白纸是遗忘症

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我洗净双手撕碎它

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雨停