找一個人 Looking for Someone

Cornelius and Kari


(see English version at the bottom)

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他笑得比昔日燦爛
Kari 說Galway Kinell 的生日会裡

有一个頭上頂着光環

不知是誰的帥哥

叫她眼前發亮走過去,

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這秒鐘

遇上我的短訊:
“替我找一个叫 Cornelius Eady的人,告訴他我想他 !”

“哈哈，你怎麽知道這是我要找的人 ?”
Kari 和我同時通話。

“他說你好嗎 !”
“我說我想他 !”
“哈哈, 他正在看你的短訊 !"

他說他病好了一切都不一樣
他說他会活得更好
更珍惜眼前人
他說
他依然樂意接生我的詩
告訴我我有足夠的文字
給死魚般的我打強心針

在[詩歌中心]每天相處
我確實不懂, 不懂他和他的
關懷、鼓励、和眼前

說走便走
說回來便回來
笑靨如昨
我算什麼 ?

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晚來比不來要好的文字工人
自以為不會寫詩,

全靠他說 "你成的" 的笨瓜

還有十多廿年來透過這個那個

包括他老婆莎拉
"告訴他我想念他"

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今天一定親自給打電話 !

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April 8, 2007

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Looking for Someone

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He has a smile bigger than ever.
At Galway Kinell’s birthday party
Kari said there is a handsome man with a halo
Catches her eyes
Who is he ?
She is going over

While a SMS comes unexpectedly,
“Please find someone called Cornelius Eady for me
and tell him I miss him.”

“Ha, ha…how do you know this is the one I am looking for ?”
Over the phone both of us ask.

“He says hi !”
“I say I miss him.”
“Ha, ha...he is reading your SMS !”

He said he has recovered and life is not the same,
He said he will live a better life,
He said he treasures everyone,
He said

He still baby sits my poems
And tells me my language is fine
And wakes up the dead fish in me.

Together at the Poetry Center

I did not see things in front of my eyes

of him and what he did
care, encouragement, and

departure without turning my head,
And coming back upon a request,
And he is still as sweet as forever.
Who am I ?

A language worker not knowing how to write
except him saying “You can”
Better late than never
To tell someone how he is missed
via this person that person
including his wife Sarah

Tonight, I must give him a call.


April 8, 2007