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Desire Molecules by Gu Xie

They linger about all day long
In spacious days
Always thinking to construct with individual freedom
A center
Thought like a changeful weather
In a storm and burning sun
Will never lose the adoration for the front
Through a conclusion through the past
Through the seldom seen peace
Gestated by prophets for the conventional world
They discover the matter in putting out a cigarette
In numerous glorious steps
They discover that the fragments of thought
Are blown into the sea bottom with no reproach
By a violent melancholy
Getting tired for maturity
And for tears
Believing in another invitation of truth
Evenings are of no light
No return slide from a financial market
Their evenings have nothing 
But the infinite sinfonia
Given by their self-confidence
For a da y a year
And even a century
They keep shaking hands by their life
With societies
And in a lonely tongue talking about
The experiences hidden with caress
No one notices them
They are like trees, yet
Willing to know pedestrians
All vortexes in excitement, and
The fashion fictions dropped in taxies

The throng is a sort of pain
Just as plains can't sleep well
The suddenly gathered stocks and monuments
Are a sort of pain
They wish lovers infants
And the cherished emotion
Never to awake to
The formula from sleep at midnight
They sit alone on their own bones
Firmly spending
Fearsome springs
Being alive requires patience
To their not happy shadows
They usually say so
To look for a method
Of preventing intelligence from suffering any more
To look for a tool 
Of making nerves music
And to look for a kiss to decline all
Are for memories, to arouse
The simplicity outside all benefits
They are in such a corner
Like this, making love for trust
And for humanity's never wavering struggle
To flow with
The courage to brighten the world

Who has first heard the toll
And the earthquake ideas from all ranks of life
Whose weekends still
Have the weapon control reflected in beverage and food
The presumed outcome
Run off tunnels, and
Intemperate newspapers
If the human value, is
Distorted in contacting the foreseen accomplishments
What
More exciting secret
Can the throb of resurrection and burial still bring
To today's expectation

They walk out of one story after another
The distance for their thirsty performance
Is shone by many notable wreckages
They can't agitate
By exultation
Their dull comprehension of an important illusion
They can only
Manifest by telephone to strange visitors
The weak dance of
Their still being in combat

The future road is infinitely continuous
Yet the supposed future
Is not more than banks
Or residences
More capable of satisfying the sense organs
The future they believe in and gaze at has vanished
The exhausted soap opera for each week
Is saying
Regrettably
See you
To their familiar or unfamiliar breasts

Are you ready
Tell everybody what more you want to do
Know the close relation the use of beer has got
With the environmental protection
Does beauty on TV start another
Offensive
They keep coughing
in a farewell mixed with various simplicities
Their beds stretch towards the park
In a pure dream
Without somniloquy
Tonight, they want to let the hair
Stick alone and fully to
A piece of rock
Deserted by the multitude

Bio: Gu Xie, member of Chinese Writers Association, born in Shanghai in 1960s, started his literary creation at the age of 14. After graduation, he worked successively as a road builder, warehouse keeper, journalist, literary editor, editorial director and chief editor. He is the author of six collections of solo poetry: Selected Poetry of Gu Xie, Tai Ji,£¨ the Supreme Ultimate£©, State Symphony, Steps of Guangzhou, Pudong Symphony and etc¡£ with over twenty long poems published. Gu Xie has won many poetry awards like Guangdong Government Literary Award for Poetry in 1996, Guangzhou Government Literature and Art Award for Poetry in 2002, Guangdong Government Literature and Art Award for Broadcast & Television Poetry in 2004. His poems have appeared in various well-known large-scale literary magazines like Lotus, Flower City, Muse, Hunan Literature, Guangzhou Literature and Art and some others, and in numerous anthologies like People Literature Press Triennium Anthology , Chinese Writers Press Collection of Poetry , Flower City Selected Works for the 50th Anniversary of Guangdong Writers Association, Chinese Literature Press Panda Books issued overseas (Gu Xie was the fourth contemporary poet introduced abroad by this press till then after the three others outstanding : Ai Qing°¬Çà¡¢Xu ZhimoÐì־Ħand Shu TingÊææÃsince the founding of the Republic.). Before the issue of the collection Tai Ji (a long epic poem), a bilingual one, the author unexpectedly received a letter from the White House with the signature of Mr. Bill Clinton, American President at the time expressing his appreciations and regards. Now this work in English version still available in North America, Australia and Europe is collected by both American Library of Congress and Chinese National Library£¬Still some works of Gu Xie are gathered in Chinese National Library, Modern Chinese Literature Library & Hong Kong Central Library. The poet also writes fiction, poetics, prose, song lyrics, essays, travel notes and other types of work. In 2001, as one 0f the few chosen representatives nationwide, Gu Xie attended the 5th National Youth Writers Conference held in Beijing . In 2000 and 2003, as a member of Chinese Writers Delegation , Gu Xie went on visits to Japan and Pakistan respectively for literary exchange, where he gave a lecture Opening & Literature in Pen Tokyo Centre, and improvised a short verse Pakistan Pakistan , which was read aloud at an official party Islamabad . In 2000, Gu Xie was invited to serve as College Writer at Guangdong Arts College for three years. Since 2003 he has been working as faculty in Guangzhou Writing and Research Centre. He has also served on the board of the Poetry Society in Guangdong Writers Association. As Vice-president of Guangzhou Writers Association, he continues to teach poetry as well as work on his own creative writing. Currently Gu Xie plans to produce a long epic poem.