dear mom, my shadow is dead

讀點詩吧。
它夾在書頁間。票根，U.S. vs Jonhn Lennon.
10月3日星期二。電影院在 Pasadena；那是2006年，回去看我爸我媽。
日出日落。許多事膠著黏稠。氣壓低到貼地。
也是這個 blog 的誕生期。
時日如飛。再也回不去了——

A Letter From Home
Russell Edson

One night a man's shadow died. Slumping, it groped its heart and dripped down the wall into a dark stain on the floor in the shape of a man who died in his bedroom alone ...
The man writes home: Dear mom, my shadow is dead. I may have to be reborn, if you and dad are up to it, and have a new shadow attached ...
His mother writes back: Dear Ken, please don't count on it. In truth, dear, given another chance I think I would ask for an abortion ...