帶著爸無論如何都要做好讓我帶來的麻油雞,今年一點也不冷的立冬,意外有了補冬的機會。
我猜想,或許因為生日接近,腦海裡百感交集著許多末世情懷,就像打電玩只剩一條命時的緊迫感,之間也混淆著Game Over去重來一場的錯置念頭。
週六困頓於媽始終無法根絕酒害的疲憊,讀Emily Dickinson的As by the dead we love to sit:
As by the dead we love to sit, Become so wondrous dear -- As for the lost we grapple Tho' all the rest are here -- In broken mathematics We estimate our prize Vast -- in its fading ration To our penurious eyes!
不免怔於那尾末一句,眼界總不如心地寬廣,但我終竟說服不了誰,只能讀詩,在一個個人都散去的午后,悄悄重拾不知何時,或因疲於奔命;或因原地踏步的怠惰,而漸淡去的信仰。