少年時代用過的鋼筆
咒語如詩
手機笑我凊彩講講
回憶是一瓶藍色墨水
六十五載昨日夢
(* 凊彩講講 ,台語“隨便說說”ciencae gownggorng,拼調式台語拼音字寫法請參閱我這篇《台語羅馬拼音字試寫》“台羅試”。台語“凊彩講講”與國語或華語普通話的“昨日夢”跨語押韻。slant rhyme / near rhyme(斜韻、近韻,英譯的whatever 與yesterday也是)。)
Blue Ink
The fountain pen I used as a boy
spells like a poem,
while my phone laughs at me:
just saying whatever.
Memory is a bottle of blue ink.
Sixty-five years, a dream from yesterday.