Ninety-nine Lines

A child said to another child
I have ninety-nine lines
This was the reason I sat down
I wasn’t interested in the lines
but in ninety-nine
Ninety-nine is an attitude
Ninety-nine wrote this poem
In my native village, it ceased to be
an ordinary number long ago

I grew up in ninety-nine
My feelings are bound to ninety-nine
One child and another
they made ninety-nine into ninety-nine
They don’t understand
the ninety-nine mountains and rivers
behind the language
Ninety-nine is quite pretentious
Inheritance and enhancement, enthusiasm and melancholy
everything given to ninety-nine
Only children (those two)
move straight to a hundred

I push open the door and see ninety-nine
sleep and dream ninety-nine
Ninety-nine
is in the end only this inertia
It consumes my bravery
Breaking away from it brings me to the edge of the abyss
One child and another
finished this poem
I decide to jump

九十九个球

九十九个球