I don't fucking know what it is probably just modern life
当代生活
需要unrealized promises堆着推着向前
你需要AI
action item 或者 aritificial intelligence
推着假装向前
不要细想某件事实际做到与否
你们的共同敌人是老板
But does that make you friends
I don't need no friends in a workspace
Another word that has been ruined by this shithole company
每时每刻
我都不觉得自己比一个鸡毛掸子
或者taco stand对社会更有用
有用,为何,又干什么呢?
你是否如你觉得那般entitled
你是系统一个组件
平庸之恶一份子
你可以
树立一个假想敌
不一定假想,真实存在
房间里一百头大象
任选一只,踩在其上
轻易占据,道德高地
随时随地punch up,向上肘击
你解释便是错误,永无止境
你有那么多选择
为什么不辞职
不
只因统统都被囚禁
健身房里的西绪福斯
平地推拉杠铃片
push and pull
那是系统设计
但先deliver了再说,show your velocity
我觉得不满
我是否可以
有资格底气说
I fucking quit
or I just want to game the system
我听你们提到任何一个关键字都烦
但为了生殖系统健康
人生何处都莫置气
莫让肿瘤占据身体
与AI吵架,我迷失于语义
人工智能或者人类does it matter
I don't care
谁置于谁的暴力
你是否在意,你的identity
白或黄,男或女,谁也别觉可以逃避
06/01/2026
Sick of Life
Sick of small talks
Sick of pretending I care about work
Sick of explaining myself
To the manager or senior
The context or the reasoning
Of why using one data structure over another
Sick of poking others for things, unblocking myself
If it is really important, why are you ignoring my questions
Sick of talking myself into the belief that
this work has great impact, push forward
Sick of commuting
Sick of public transportations
Sick of artificial voice of announcement
Sick of sound of card tapping
Sick of being aware of the space of the stranger next to you
making way for people getting out
Sick of scrolling through the transit notifications
Sick of group of interns walking so slow
on the sidewalk, blocking you with their perky conversations
Sick of social media, notifications
Sick of people’s ego-filled, self-righteous opinions all over
Sick of podcasts
Sick of mindfulness, therapists’ 10 suggestions
Sick of ideas with purposefully controversial ideas
using polarized words or phrases
incenting nothing but arguments
Sick of people respond supportively and flatteringly to each other online
wow I like that, wow that’s amazing
while if you talk to them offline
they just seem cold
Sick of people commenting on other people’s lives a posteriori
as if they had a better choice, or would’ve acted wisely
if they were in the same situation
”You could’ve.. “, “I would”
Sick of fingerprints on the phone screen
after putting on hand creams
Sick of music and movie critiques
Sick of being judgemental all the time
I wish the judgementing voice could stop in my head
Literally tiring
Draining my brain power and cells
Not just about others also onto myself
Postscript:
This was written in August when I got stuck in a weird state, when I was filled with too many judgements about every single thing that I encountered. Sick is a strong word, exaggerating a bit for poerty. More like being bored, nonchalantly judgemental, nothing could really light up my interest. This poem was left like this, I deemed it unfinished. But guess I was out of this state long ago. Was also referencing the famous monologue Choose Life from Trainspotting.
每次听快乐小分队
记忆都会回到2019年的秋天
天气逐渐凉爽
冬天潜伏在角落
和一些朋友看了几场钉鞋后摇
以及Peter Hook的季节
Luna现场唱了Galaxy 500的歌
散场得到乐队全体签名黑胶
某场后摇吃了一颗大麻软糖
十分钟的歌如同听了一小时
好像也并没有如我期待
让我对音乐感知更敏感
among the gang
有情欲暗潮涌动的男女
事后听到了两人角度的故事
我觉得很有趣
What we didn’t know at that time
Ahead of us
Was the winter of 2020
Coronavirus
一切都会不一样了
微醺宇宙
微醺的时刻
是离散的宇宙
我常常独自一人在家做饭
配上酒精
熟知合适的计量
让我进入微醺状态
戴着耳机
听循环过不知几遍的歌曲
洗碗、擦桌子、倒垃圾
去垃圾站的路上
遇见或者不遇见邻居
或许ta们看不出
这个人正在和过去每一个微醺时刻
产生连接
暂时忘记生活前后文
思绪流转
沉浸在此刻
回想起之前零碎
借着酒精沉醉在空气里的时刻
那晚夜色如何
电影或演出散场
和同行的人
谈论什么只言片语
抑或是一人在异国他乡街头
试图最大限度感受
这个城市
与我无关的气息
After the show, the crowd
After the show
people walk to their transportations
The hotness and liveliness of the show were still in the air
I like it when the venue was in a park, or in a sports complex
When the crowd had to share some amount of walk
before they can reach the vehicles or transportations
Once after The XX concert
someone started to sing Wonderwall out of nowhere
and the crowd sang along
I often observe the crowd after the show
Like I never found a perfect crowd to blend in
It’s either too Chinese, like 万能青年旅店
or too boomer like Cat Power sings Bob Dylan
or too gen-z like Mistki
Which is strange, for whatever reason she is popular on TikTok
with a teenager crowd, differ from my expectations
But punk music always attracts 15-year-olds
like Avril Lavigne and Green Day
which I listened to at 15
But most often
I am among a bunch of tall bald white guys
could not see the musicians on the stage
doubting what kind of music I am into
what is the demography that I share tastes with
People wear the tour shirts
holding the merch in their hands
talking about the show that just ended
Heading to the next stop maybe
I belong to no crowd
which is perfectly fine
as I am used to being an outsider
all the time
I avoid eye contact with human beings outside, but not with dogs
People I bumped into
In sweetgreen downstairs
A guy from grad school
Who bragged about getting interviews from all big four accounting firms
during an sharing session
Now ended up doing data analyst in the same tech firm I work for
Living with wife, two kids and a Samoyed dog on the east side of this city
Needless to say single family house quiet big yard where dogs can enjoy
In New York office
The Korean girl from whom I bought a bed
It was a sweet second hand deal for a bed I wanted for a while
She was moving when I picked up the bed
With friends and seemingly a mom sitting on a mattress lying on the ground
Chatting in Korean, furnitures pieces spreading all over the apartment
A guy who is a husband of a grad school girl
Never met in real life
merely recognized from that girl’s SNS pictures
Looked him up from company internal website
Confirmed
Weird I can recognize irrelevant people’s face and names
Even from ages ago