you! so self-inflated rising up on two legs and roiling and flailing and whipping about like a spring you! when your bonds are broken rolling around like a coconut you! not so long and yet you slunk past every fight without a scratch though you’re completely stone-dead you! slippery glittering, forgetting you're a part of the past of the sea you! threading your way like an eel ending your life in a narrow gutter laughing as you vomit blood loose teeth like instrument keys you! crumpling up all that you have what else can you do when you are perfectly deformed?
- Vũ Thành Sơn - translated by David Payne - photo by Alice Pedroletti