| 1 | Actually, sex is the same | 1 | To sleep with you or to be slept, what’s the difference if there’s any? |
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| 2 | on top or bottom. It’s just | 2 | Two bodies collide – the force, the flower pushed open by the force, |
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| 3 | the force of collision between two bodies, | 3 | the virtual spring in the flowering – nothing more than this |
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| 4 | the forcing open of a flower, | 4 | and this we mistake as life restarting. In half of China |
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| 5 | the flower-faked spring we confused | 5 | things are happening: volcanoes |
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| 6 | for life opening once more. | 6 | erupting, rivers running dry, |
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| 7 | Everything is happening across China: | 7 | political prisoners and displaced workers abandoned, |
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| 8 | Volcanoes are erupting | 8 | elk deer and red-crowned cranes shot. |
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| 9 | Rivers drying | 9 | I cross the hail of bullets to sleep with you. |
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| 10 | Political prisoners and refugees ignored | 10 | I press many nights into one morning to sleep with you. |
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| 11 | Deer and cranes held at gun point. | 11 | I run across many of me and many of me run into one to sleep with you. |
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| 12 | I had to brave through bullets to sleep with you | 12 | Yet I can be misled by butterflies of course |
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| 13 | I had to press innumerable nights into one dawn to sleep withyou | 13 | and mistake praise as spring, |
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| 14 | Innumerable I’s running to one I to sleep with you | 14 | a village like Hengdian as home. But all these, |
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| 15 | Of course sometimes the butterflies will lead me astray | 15 | all of these are absolutely indispensable |
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| 16 | Praise confused for spring | 16 | reasons that I sleep with you. |
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| 17 | A Hengdian-like town for home | | |
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| 18 | Yet these | | |
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| 19 | are all the more reasons I must sleep with you. | | |
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