特评or special comment, on a poem anonymously submitted this morning

By Ouyang Yu

 《诗与人》 

 

把诗写成屎的人

无谓对错，实际上

是一种水平

一种写诗就拉自己屎的水平

只有读诗的人在那里

有的品香

有的品臭

 

把诗写成史的人

红黑分明，一种睁眼的黑

闭眼的明。有人写白

史，有人写黑

史，有人编造文字

把一页页发光的纸，写成

包装纸


I had no idea who it was that wrote the poem but when invited to make a teping, or special comment, I did it anyway, as follows,


早上有群友发来一诗，我正要去db，一看，原来写了屎，好像是什么了不起的大事一样。其实不过就是写了我们每天早上都要open——英文把拉屎叫做“open one’s bowels”（开膛、开肠）——并拉出来——注意：英文不叫“拉屎”，英文叫“推屎”（参见我的《译心雕虫》或《告别汉语》中关于Germaine Greer的评论），仔细想一下，推比拉更逻辑——这样的诗，这样的诗维，这样的屎维，我觉得还处于史前期、屎前期，没有入港。要等到写屎连腹稿（哈哈哈，屎，不就是腹中之稿、之搞吗？）都不打，直接从笔下流到、拉到纸上，那才算正式进入后现代——现：展现的现、凸现的现、丢人现眼的现。不，丢屎现眼的现。不过，从一写诗就想发表，就想求赞，就想得到人好评的角度来讲，这首诗是一不大可能在砸诗群外的任何地方发表，二也不大可能得到那些自动退群的几个永远也不可能求新创新的“反动分子”的赞许——他们的屎（shi）只能拉到诗（shi）外去。说他们是反动分子可能还褒奖了他们，应该称“永不求新分子、坚决拒绝求新分子”还比较合适。群里还有认识他们的人，赶快通wind报letter去吧。这是特评吗？这不是特评吗？特评是不是一定要说好话才算特评？如果邀请一个从来都不知道怎么说好话的人写特评，是不是请错了？得好好想一想了。顺便说一下，db的意思就是大便。


And it's not till 8 hours or so later that I found out the poem was written by Ma Shiju, one of the smashing group friends.

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