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Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
--T.S. Eliot
Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
唱遊課－好人與壞人
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有些比我更年少的朋友，偶會把他們的詩拿給我閱讀。我想起自己，當年把詩第一次給別人看，緊張得跟全裸沒有兩樣。
這種揭開靈魂的舉動畢竟充滿了危險性；允許他者不喜歡自己的詩，是不易養成的美德，大家都很怕遇到壞人。
但怎麼可能有人永遠欣賞你的每首作品？怎麼能夠暗自在內心設定此世界喜歡你的詩就是好人不懂如何欣賞的就是壞人？此類執念皆太像是幼童時期對母愛的幻想之殘留了，非得要有人包容才能有安全感，是無法寫作的。
布萊希特曾表示：「好人欣賞你的優美/壞人懼怕你的利爪/我願意聽人/這樣/品評我的詩」──寫作愈久，卻愈知道沒有絕對的好人與壞人。
作總難免遇到被讀者發「好人卡」時（如夏宇也感嘆：「但他實在是一個好人/只不過寫了一些壞詩」）；然而，儘管經常毒舌得彷彿壞人，我們其實又如此溫柔善良──只要讀到一首真正的好詩，再壞的詩人我們都可以立刻原諒他們。