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The Players「燈光裡飛馳失意的孩子 …」- 達明一派The neon prisms of our postcard skyline collapse, one by one. Shards ofglass fly slow-motion across the screen like blown dandelions – like childrenfrom the 80s dispatched across different oceans. This romanticizing of ourcollective fate still lights my fire, still sends me sprinting across the citycollecting old scenes, new frames.I’m back, thirty years removed, with a blend of love and vengeance thatweaves past pedestrians on a crowded footbridge on a Saturday night, just toconfront the harbour, the hazy tops of office towers with glowingtrademarks dripping gold onto dark waters. The sky punctured by the bank’sghostly-white needle.I’m back.To endure your posing the same pose year after year, blurring the patterns ofstars that spell out the people’s hopes. To endure your misrepresentation ofus on commercial souvenirs with stiff, sexless postures like the suited civilservants who posed for photo the day they came back to announce the saleof integrity, the return of prosperity, the restoration of national insecurity.The kid you should have killed in ‘89 is back, with one foot outside the cage,taking notes on your fears and the ways you shrivel.I have my place amongst the players. We hover an inch above the pavement,change colours under smog and streetlamps, dance to cassette tapes thatconceal the revolution with love songs. Sometimes we flicker. Sometimes weburn and make tight turns onto new avenues, nursing each other’s wounds,even if only to slow the collapse. Escape remains an option tonight, whilethe party continues. She’s picked a purple dress for the occasion, and I’vedyed the blade of my left brow pink. Exuberant, in my new-foundexpression, knowing I would have risked a lot more had I lived here all mylife.114
Atom CheungHong Kong"The Players" is a prose poem from a book-in-progress which chroniclesmy interactions with music by the Hong Kong pop duo 達明一派 TatMing Pair, whose music carry a subtle political undertone. TheCantonese line quoted in the piece comes from their 1987 song 今夜星光燦爛 . Tat Ming's music is what keeps me connected to Hong Kongduring my years living in Toronto between 1989 and 2009. My piece isalso a personal response to the 2019 Hong Kong protests and thesubsequent National Security Law in 2020.About Atom Cheung atomcheung.com @atomscoresAtom Cheung writes poetry and love letters. He lives in Hong Kongwhere he works as a radio presenter on RTHK. The experimentalpodcast Atomic Heart is where he reads poems and daydreams out loud.115
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