Goddess
来自China Digital Space
An allegory about the Goddess of Democracy built by pro-democracy protesters in 1989, "Goddess" is on Li Zhi's 2011 album "F."
Goddess
I have a friend, she’s 21
Always wears a white windbreaker
She lives behind a box
A photo hangs there
The people in the photo are inside the box
Each morning, a red diaper rises from a phallus
So she can’t see the people’s faces on the tombstones
This friend of mine,
she says she’s a treasure
Why did Daddy leave her here?
He says he’ll come back
He says he’s waiting
The blue ocean is quiet and distant
She survives on the fresh blood of the past
Waiting’s only brought a makeup-wearing hound
A house sits to the west
The spring brings applause
The shameless adults disgust her
A house sits to the east
The autumn brings laughter
The ignorant children disgust her, too
She’s in the corner, forgotten by the rich
Her clothes dirtied by the flowing colors of time
I have a friend
Sometimes I go see her
She never sees the color of the sky
This photo under the sky
Like the paper I use
I love it, I hate it, I feel sorry for it
Spectacular two-faced world uniting all living things
Another dizzy spell and the blood on the ground will disappear
The world is changing
My fucking ideals still can’t come true
The world is changing
My fucking ideals still can’t come true
Translation by Little Bluegill.
