YuHeng's blog

a pomegranate. ivory of teeth. rose, jug, mud, bones, the plague–an ear.

“If you want to say something different from other people, use language that’s different from other people.”

An example:

Beidao.

Untitled.

He opens a third eye
the star above his head
warm currents from both east and west 
have formed an archway
the expressway passes through the setting sun 
two mountain peaks have ridden the camel to collapse 
its skeleton has been pressed deep down 
into a layer of coal 

He sits in the narrow cabin underwater 
calm as ballast
schools of fish around him flash and gleam
freedom, that golden coffin lid
hangs high above the prison 
the people lining up behind the giant rock 
are waiting to enter the emperor's 
memory

The exile of words has begun

It’s too hard, too hard to fit an ideas within ideas, for ideas interpolate, exchange, replace, reproduce. And as long as my consciousness is limited, which is just another way of saying that as long as my perspective is expanding, I cannot keep count of all my ideas; the volume and substantiality of an idea is relative to one’s growth. What was important may not be important now, and what was remembered may be forgotten now. I don’t know what was going through my brain two years ago when X was important to me in one way or another. Similarly, what was not important to me may suddenly be important through some substantial, changing, and relative reason. Ie. wanting to earn money, exposing a naked desire for growth, for expanding the self through generative means, such as a business, which extends me (my ideas) onto others (customers). A very rough sketch, yes. But these are the substantial and fundamental reasons that has guided me onto something that was not important to me but now substantial.