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Brandy (hybrid texts – excerpt) – Xi Nan

To Brandy and our unforgettable youthful days.

 

1.

One day my mother sent me

a photo with my

cousin and me in it

cousin looked very

young at the time we were 

eating around a table cousin’s

head was down and I looked sideways

my eyes were very clean very

brave my nose and

chin were cute and looked a little

stubborn this reminded me of

another photo in which we were also

in a restaurant also

the same expression also

seventeen or eighteen years old Brandy

was also beside me at the time

in the first photo you can see

on the back of her head the short and 

fluffy hair and the photographer of

the second photo is probably

Brandy

 

2.

This reminds me of a third

photo we two were standing at 

the gate of the apartment we rented 

the apartment had a foreign-flavored and 

elegant name Brandy and 

I were standing here 

taking pictures I remember we were both wearing 

a pair of loose jeans jumpsuit

raising arms to make a flying pose the happiness 

couldn’t be hidden on the young faces Brandy’s 

face was also showing a little 

restraint I somehow could 

see from the expression that she was 

taking me as her best friend maybe 

‘love’ is not too strong a word

 

3.

Before going to bed the night before yesterday Fish screamed 

after receiving the water and electricity bills of 

last month it was more than 500RMB I 

was also surprised for a long time the apartment administrator later 

said that heating in winter was very expensive so 

it’s raining today and the air is chilling but I 

dared not turn on the heater again 

standing in front of the long window seeing 

the wet streets the cloudy sky and the 

drizzle there was a moment I 

thought of Brandy in Colorado USA but 

my imagination was very lacking of 

details I couldn’t even imagine exactly the weather 

there the closest thing to Brandy I know recently 

is probably the latest news about the coronavirus 

situation in the US I saw on Twitter a 

global pandemic plague is spreading

 

4.

Brandy is a Chinese girl she 

gave herself 

an English name: 

Brandy 

seemed like because she loved 

drinking brandy cocktails at the time 

we of course had drunk it together in 

Singapore’s very noisy open-air 

bar that was an inverted triangular 

glass with a dark-red cherry 

put on the edge

 

9.

Brandy and I both loved the iced vanilla latte with cream from Starbucks

We both loved to eat Singaporean frog porridge spicy taste and the creamy corn kernels from a shopping mall and Hainan chicken rice and Pan Mee noodles (板面) from the night market

The internet says that it is called Anhui Pan Mee (安徽板面) but I remember it was called Fujian Pan Mee (福建板面) there were a lot of Fujianese in Singapore

Once a big boy who looked a bit silly invited us to a KTV soon the party was over Brandy laughed mercilessly at his pair of canvas shoes the boy disappeared from our lives ever since 

Brandy had secret pride she liked high-end fashion brands and a stylish life I have no objection to that

We pretended to be rich girls walked into the top fashion stores hid in the fitting room and changed clothes took lots of photos of each other then casually threw an excuse to the salesperson put on a calm look and left

Global movies were released ten thousand times faster in Singapore than in China we always rushed to the cinema

Brandy had a sub-card of her mother’s Visa card much richer than me in my penniless days she was very generous and tolerant to me 

Singapore is an equatorial country should be very very hot sometimes heavy rain falls but at this time I think of the mild sunshine an atmosphere close to life the color was a bit golden and we 

Sat on the stone steps outside the shopping mall slowly eating the creamy corn kernels occasionally in a low voice sneered at the weirdoes passing by 

Brandy shouted at me straightforwardly every day: Girl I really wanna handsome boyfriend!

 

11.

When I became Brandy’s roommate for the second time 

there was also a Shanghainese girl in Singapore an inch of land 

values an inch of gold we three squeezed in a rectangular 

room with three standard double mattresses placed 

closely next to each other almost no extra space we were nineteen 

turned on the air conditioner 24/7 because of the heat it 

finally began to leak we then put a bucket under it 24/7 

to receive water the bucket was just next to my mattress turning over 

my body in sleep was pretty challenging the Shanghainese girl 

was having an American-Chinese boyfriend she spent the days 

and nights inverted to cope with the Eastern American time 

so as to accompany her boy in an online-game sometimes in the middle 

of the night I woke up holding a long bolster and saw 

Brandy sitting cross-legged on her mattress next to me 

wearing headphones sillily laughing in whispers while watching 

an American comedy on her laptop

 

12.

Brandy handed me the very first cigarette in my life

a kind of cigarette called  

Texas 5 

printed on the cigarette case it was a photo of a woman 

opening her mouth and showing her teeth the gum was already 

necrotic and blackened under the picture it warned that 

smoking causes mouth diseases and then the hotline number 

for quitting xxxx-xxxx we were standing at the door of a 

7-11 convenience store Brandy took a cigarette out 

from the case handed it to me lit it up I took a slow and 

deep draw a few seconds later exhaled the very minty 

smoke through my nose it instantly diffused in my mouth nose 

throat and even the chest cavity this was the very first 

cigarette in my life and I did not cough next to me Brandy 

cheered happily wow-la so you can smoke! wow-la okay 

then it turned out that I can smoke

 

13.

Later I heard that most domestic (in China) cigarettes are flue-cured tobaccos, while most foreign cigarettes are blend tobaccos; not sure whether this statement is true.

I didn’t get a chance to verify whether Texas 5 was a blend. After leaving Singapore in the early autumn 2004, I have never seen this kind of cigarettes again. Over the following decade or so, I observed that my favorite cigarettes were indeed all blend tobaccos.

Smokers know that the very first pack of cigarettes you smoke can largely determine your taste for cigarettes for the rest of your life.

The strong minty flavor of Texas 5 had left me a deep impression, or to say, a deep gustatory impression. Just when I’m typing down this sentence, my mouth recalls that taste. But again, ever since a certain moment which I didn’t know, I never smoked minty cigarettes anymore. When I was living in London, I loved Camel Light the most; it tasted thick and aromatic. Now I smoke 8mg Zhongnanhai (中南海, a kind of cigarette made in Beijing) or white soft pack Marlboro.

 

16.

On the eve of I leaving Singapore and going further 

studies in England Brandy handed me a long letter 

in which she recalled the times we had spent together those 

a bit crazy days she also made fun that the burgers in England 

were very unpalatable and there would be no 7-11 convenience 

store she wondered if I would become as introverted 

and deep as the English She asked 

me to remember our unforgettable youthful days that 

we’d experienced together the letter was brilliantly 

written I’m a little sad that Brandy later 

gave up her journalism career

 

17.

Singapore is fast-paced some people say it 

is 1.5 times the pace of life in China while 

Britain is slow-paced I saw a declining empire an 

old man in the twilight 6pm in Newcastle 

all the shops within my eyesight were closed I walked 

for fifteen minutes on the streets the blowing wind 

hurt my cheeks I passed three crossroads only saw two 

white people who closed their dust coats tightly on their 

chests one of which was a young man and the other was 

a big woman if the wind is too strong in a city would it 

double the feeling of hardship of life their expressions 

did look restrained and deep with a kind of perseverance like 

they were fighting against the fate there was indeed 

no 24/7 opened 7-11 convenience store here I could no 

longer get up in the middle of the night and

run downstairs to buy a box of strawberry 

ice cream

 

20.

The night of March 11, 2020 in the supermarket 

there were very few people several shop assistants lazily 

leaned against the wall or on the door wearing masks they 

measured our body temperature they didn’t speak Mandarin but 

a local dialect that was difficult to understand very 

spicy and the word speed was fast when Fish was looking for 

dumplings in front of the freezer I heard the song being 

played from the speaker singing “I love him so deeply that’s 

why I will let go even if broke my heart the rain keeps 

falling the atmosphere is not so harmonious under the same 

roof you gradually feel the heart is changing (Rain Keeps 

Falling by Zhang Yu, 张宇《雨一直下》)” what an old song this 

is I somehow remembered Pang Long’s Two Butterflies sings 

“Honey you fly slowly be careful of the rose with thorns in the 

front (庞龙《两只蝴蝶》)” in 2005 we walked in the streets and 

alleys of Beijing the song was played everywhere it simply was 

played everywhere an afternoon fifteen years later I stay

in a sparsely populated hotel beside a highway using my mobile 

phone to play the song Two Butterflies dancing alone in my 

room stand on my tiptoes raise hands turn in circles jump 

lightly sudden high and sudden low like I’m flying what is memory 

don’t be sentimental look at the endless green fields outside the 

hotel window the low houses the birds chirping and flying high some 

people are in a wedding some rushes to a funeral while some just 

sit quietly in a room surrounded by four white walls 

quietly sit

quietly sit

 

26.

Let me also talk about Beijing in 2005 it was a year that I could never forget in my heart

2005 was the second year I left Singapore and went to England it should be the first summer vacation when I was an undergraduate I went back to Beijing Brandy had already settled down there

Is the disco called Mix in the Workers’ Stadium (工人体育馆) still there later I heard that Mix was still there but it was no longer what it used to be it was now packed with high-priced prostitutes and vulgar rich men was Mix really not what it used to be already later we never visited there again

In 2005 Brandy and I met two good friends in Mix till now our friendship has already survived for nearly fifteen years that was exactly Bobby and Shawn they are cousins Bobby’s girlfriend at the time was a tall girl called Queenie who seemed to be quite nimble soon they broke up Bobby later had some other girlfriends now his wife is a Japanese girl and they have two children

In Mix Brandy also met Little Zuo who was also studying abroad in England at the time they two fell in love and broke up at lightning speed of course we all knew that Little Zuo was an asshole years later Zuo got drunk at an open-air bar loudly shouted “beautiful” to every passer-by he even shouted that to every man or really old woman passed by this happened only less than a year after his new marriage

In 2005 Woman Street (女人街) was not yet removed we often went to a bar there called Fairy Bar (仙吧) in the middle of the night drank and played games until dawn time once Shawn said that he saw Faye Wong sitting at the bar it was THE Faye Wong (王菲) the Singing Queen we pulled the eaten chewing gum to cover the car license plate number racing all the way after drunk the music in the car and the loud laughing and chatting mixed together almost through the roof

In 2005 Bobby was very fat and Shawn was very thin but now I tell Bobby who has successfully lost huge weight for several years that he is a bit like Huang Bo (黄渤, a Chinese comedian) they looked at me who had gained huge weight after taking bipolar disorder medicines and sighed fat girl if we meet in Mix now I definitely don’t want to know you

That was already 2018 they two still took me the fat girl at the time to drinking parties together sometimes they at the same time played online games on their mobile phones then I silently went in a daze or browsed on my phone in order to participate the drinking parties at late night I even stayed for a few days in a small inn not far away from Shawn’s home

If we didn’t acquaint early when we were still so young of course everything will be different after entering the adult world the so-called friends I’ve made always brought short-lived friendship and everlasting interests

Later Bobby and Shawn who was also studying abroad in the United States returned to Beijing to settle down too I heard that Shawn was particularly miserable when he left the US because of a failed love relationship his visa expired when he was deported back to China he carried only a plastic bag in hand and the heroine in that relationship had become someone else’s wife a few years ago

Bobby and Shawn and Brandy had all returned to Beijing the many people coming and going around them were also in Beijing and I returned to England from Newcastle to Birmingham to London I settled down in England in the fierce wind

 

27.

2005 in Beijing, I had straight waist-length, red hair.

 

29.

What else can I record about Brandy.

Have I already recorded her full picture?

Have I accomplished the original intention of this group of hybrid texts, trying to record a period of cherished history in my heart…

Sometimes I feel everything is futile.

Memory deforms and many things must have been missed. History may have been blown away in the wind long ago.

Brandy is certainly not anything I’ve written above. I can’t trap her in a few paragraphs.

Brandy is just Brandy. Or not even Brandy.

Brandy is just an English name that a Chinese girl gave herself in the year 2003.

About Brandy, what else can I say.

 

30.

It was probably a summer vacation around 2005 I was staying 

in Brandy’s home in Beijing Brandy and I lived in her room and 

her father lived in the other room her father almost 

gave full freedom did not ask much about our life it was 

a very old tube-shaped building an auntie sat in the elevator full 

time every day to ask us which floor we lived on and then 

pressed the elevator button the elevator stopped working at twelve 

o’clock midnight during that period of time Brandy and I who had 

been drinking late at night climbed the stairs ourselves 

numerous times and her home was located on the tenth floor every 

time before climbing the stairs standing at the building gate we 

had to spend much time to encourage each other for a few days a high 

school best girl friend of Brandy’s came we went to watch the small 

live concert of the Canadian rock band Simple Plan we three 

squeezed on Brandy’s double bed cosmetics mixed together we just 

reached for whatever was convenient but I didn’t like that 

girl like I didn’t like Sister Rabbit later the reason was very 

simple probably because I liked Brandy very much once the high 

school girl friend used my powder puff to refine her make-up after 

heavy sweating made the puff smelly the next day I threw the puff 

away another thing was that once Brandy’s father told on me that I 

was in some trouble my mother suddenly flew to Beijing without any 

warning to bring me back home so I ran and hid all over the Beijing 

city in my memory my footsteps were rapid my eyes were clean and 

brave really I wasn’t afraid at all how many years ago did that happen that 

summer we successfully escaped standing and smoking on the 

sun-burning balcony the laptop behind us was looping Simple 

Plan’s song Perfect “hey dad look at me did I grow 

up according to plan I just want to make you proud but we lost 

it all I’m sorry I can’t be perfect I’m sorry I can’t be perfect…”

 

Full version of hybrid texts Brandy will be published and available soon.

 

 

Brandy(混合文本节选)

作者:西楠

 

献给Brandy和我们雪飞雪落、深深浅浅的青春岁月。

 

1.

有一天母亲发来

一张照片上面有我的

表姐和我

表姐看上去还很

年轻我们围在一张

桌子旁吃饭表姐

低着头我侧着脸

我的眼睛很干净很

勇敢的样子鼻子和

下巴翘翘的看上去

倔强这使我想起了

另一张照片同样是

在一间餐馆里同样

这副表情同样

十七八岁的年龄Brandy

当时同样在我身旁

第一张照片里能看见

她短发蓬松的

后脑勺第二张照片的

拍摄者很可能就是

Brandy

 

2.

这又使我想起了第三

张照片是我们二人站在

当时租住的公寓楼下

公寓有一个洋气又

雅致的名字我和

Brandy就站在这里

拍照记得我们都穿

  1. 一.宽松的背带牛仔

裤抬高手臂做出一种

飞翔的姿势年轻的脸上

掩饰不住快乐Brandy

的脸上还有一点点

内敛不知怎么我能

从那种表情中看出她

那时对我的感情也许说

爱也不过分

 

3.

前天晚上睡觉之前鱼儿

收到上个月水电账单惊叫

起来竟有五百多元我

也惊叹了半天公寓管理员后来

说冬天暖气很费电所以

今天下雨了空气冷

飕飕的但我不敢再开暖气

站在长长的窗户前看见

湿的街道阴的天空绵绵

细雨有一个瞬间我

想到了正在科罗拉多州

的Brandy但我的想象非常

缺乏细节我甚至难以

确切地想象那里的天气

近来我所知道的离Brandy

最近的事情大概是推特

上不断推送给我的美国

新冠病毒最新情况一场

全球流行性瘟疫正在蔓延

 

4.

Brandy是一个中国女孩她

给自己取

了一个英文名字叫做

Brandy

好像因为那时她很喜欢

喝白兰地鸡尾酒

我们当然一起喝过在

新加坡人声鼎沸的露天

酒吧那是一只倒三角

形的杯子杯沿上插一枚

暗红色樱桃

 

9.

我和Brandy都喜欢喝星巴克的香草味冰拿铁加奶油

我们都喜欢吃新加坡的田鸡粥最好加辣还有一家商场里的奶油玉米粒和夜市里的海南鸡饭和板面

上网搜索说那叫做安徽板面但我记得它叫福建板面新加坡的福建人很多

有一次一个看上去有点傻愣愣的大个子男孩请我们去KTV很快聚会就结束了Brandy毫不留情嘲笑了那男孩穿的一双帆布鞋男孩从此消失在我们的生活中

Brandy有隐秘的骄傲她喜欢高级时尚品牌和有格调的生活对此我并无非议

我们装模作样走进顶级时装店躲在试衣间里换衣服互相拍很多照片又随口打发店员做出镇定的模样离开

新加坡的全球电影上映速度比中国快一万倍我们总是跑去电影院

Brandy有一张她妈妈的Visa卡副卡比我有钱多了在我穷困潦倒的日子里对我很大方包容

新加坡是赤道国家应该是非常非常炎热有时大雨滂沱的但此时我想起了温和的太阳一种贴近生活的气息颜色有点金黄而我们

坐在商场外的石阶上一口一口吃掉奶油玉米粒偶尔小声讥笑路过的怪人

Brandy每天都要直通通地冲我喊女人我好想艳遇啊

 

11.

第二次和Brandy合租时

还有一个上海女孩新加坡

永远寸土寸金三个人挤在

一间长方形房间三张双人

床垫紧挨着几乎再没多余

空间我们十九岁在炎热中

二十四小时开着空调它终

于漏水了我们又二十四小

时放一只水桶在空调下接

水水桶紧挨我的床垫睡觉

翻身十分考验技巧上海女

孩交着一个美籍华人男朋

友每天昼夜颠倒过着美国

东部时间陪他联机打游戏

有时半夜我抱着条状抱枕

醒来看见Brandy在紧挨

我的床垫上戴耳机盘着腿

吃吃笑着看美剧

 

12.

Brandy递给了我人生中的第一

根烟是一种叫做德克萨斯5的

烟就是Texas 5烟盒上印着一

个女人龇牙的嘴牙齿牙龈都坏

死发黑了图片下警告人们吸烟

会引发口腔疾病然后是戒烟求

助电话xxxx-xxxx我们站在7-11

便利店门口Brandy从烟盒抽出

一支递给我点燃我深吸一口又

从鼻子里喷出一股非常薄荷的

味道瞬间弥散在我的口鼻喉咙

甚至胸腔这是我人生中的第一

口香烟而我并没有咳嗽旁边的

Brandy面露欣喜说哇塞原来你

会抽烟呀哇塞好吧原来我会抽

烟呀

 

13.

后来听说,国内香烟大多是烤烟型,国外香烟大多是混合型。不确定这样的说法是否准确。

没有机会考证Texas 5究竟是不是混合型,2004年初秋离开新加坡以后,我再没见过这种烟。此后十几年,我观察到我喜欢的香烟的确都是混合型。

烟民知道,你抽过的第一包烟将决定此后一生对香烟的口味喜好。

Texas 5的极强薄荷味道给我留下深刻印象,或者说深刻的味觉印象,就在我打下这一行字时,我的口腔又回忆起了那种味道。但同样,在不知什么时间我再也不抽薄荷味香烟。在伦敦生活时,我最喜欢“骆驼”,浓且香,现在则抽8毫克的中南海,或白色软包万宝路。

 

16.

离开新加坡去往英国上学

的前夜Brandy递给我一

封长信里面回忆了这一段

我们共度的不可不说有点

儿疯狂的日子还取笑说英

国的汉堡很难吃也没有7-11

便利店哦她问我会不会变

得和英国人一样内敛幽深

她请我记得我们雪飞雪落

深深浅浅的青春岁月那封

信写得文采飞扬我有些难

过Brandy后来放弃了以

文字为生的工作

 

17.

新加坡是快节奏的有人说它

是大陆生活节奏的1.5倍而

英国是缓慢节奏的我看见一

个衰落的昔日帝国一个垂暮

的老人傍晚六点钟纽卡斯尔

目所能及的店铺全都关门歇

业了我在狂风吹疼面颊的蜿

蜒街道持续行走了十五分钟

经过了三个十字路口只遇见

两个将风衣在胸口扯紧的白

人一个年轻男子一个胖女人

一座城市里的风太大是不是

会倍增人生艰辛之感他们的

表情看上去真的内敛而幽深

有种和命运做斗争般的坚毅

这里真的没有24小时的7-11

便利店我不能再半夜爬起跑

到楼下买一盒带草莓肉的桶

装雪糕

 

20.

2020年3月11日夜晚的超市

人迹寥寥几个店员懒洋洋靠在

墙边或者门上戴着口罩测量我

们的体温她们不说普通话说一

种很难听懂的当地方言泼辣且

语速很快鱼儿在冰柜前找饺子

时我听见广播里正在放的歌唱

着就是爱到深处才由他碎了心

也要放得下雨一直下气氛不算

融洽在同个屋檐下你渐渐感到

心在变化这是多么老的一首歌

了我不知怎么又想起庞龙唱的

两只蝴蝶亲爱的你慢慢飞小心

前面带刺的玫瑰2005年我们

走在北京的大街小巷到处都在

播放这首歌简直到处都在播放

这首歌十五年后的一个下午我

在一家高速公路旁人迹罕至的

宾馆房间里用手机播放这首歌

独自起舞踮脚扬手转圈轻盈跳

跃忽高忽低像在飞翔记忆是一

种什么东西你不要感伤你看宾

馆窗外一望无际的绿野低矮的

楼房鸟儿鸣叫着飞向高处有人

结婚有人奔丧而有的人只是在

四面白墙的房间中安静地坐着

安静坐着

安静坐着

 

26.

那么再记录一下2005年的北京那是我心中无论如何忘不了的一年

2005年是我离开新加坡去到英国的第二年应该是在读本科时的第一个暑假我回到北京Brandy已在北京安家落户

工体那间叫做Mix的迪厅还在不在后来一次我听说Mix还在但早已不是当年的样子如今里面是各种非主流高价小姐土大款Mix真的不再是当年的样子吗后来我们再也没有去过

2005年Brandy和我在Mix里认识了后来一交十几年的朋友(至今已近15年)正是Bobby和Shawn他们是两兄弟当时Bobby的女朋友是一个叫做Queenie的看上去做派利落的高个子女生很快他们分手了Bobby后来又交过一些女朋友现在的妻子是一个日本姑娘他们生下两个孩子

Brandy在Mix还认识了当时也在英国留学回来放假的小左两人闪电式恋爱又分手当然我们都知道小左是混蛋多年后他醉倒在一间露天酒吧朝每一个过路人大喊美女对着男人或者老婆婆他仍然大喊美女那时他才新婚不到一年

2005年的女人街还没被拆除我们常常半夜去到一间叫做仙吧的酒吧喝酒玩游戏直到天亮有一次Shawn说看见王菲坐在吧台旁就是那个歌后王菲我们拉扯嚼过的口香糖盖住车牌号酒后一路狂飙车里的音乐和高声谈笑混杂成一团快掀翻车顶

2005年的Bobby很胖Shawn很瘦而现在我告诉已经减肥成功数年的Bobby他有点儿像黄渤他俩看着服食躁郁症药物后体重激增的我感叹胖妞儿要是现在在Mix遇见我肯定不想认识你

那已经是2018年他俩还是带着当时非常胖的我一起喝酒有时他们一边用手机联机打游戏我就沉默着发呆或刷手机为了方便深夜参加酒局我还在Shawn家不远处一个小旅馆住过几天

如果不是相识很早我们还小一切当然会是不一样的走进成人世界以后我所交往的所谓朋友总是重演着短命的友谊和恒久的利益

后来同在美国留学的Bobby和Shawn也回到北京安家落户听说Shawn离开美国时格外凄惨因为一段恋情失败导致签证过期被遣送回国时手里只拎一只塑料袋而恋情中的女主角几年前已嫁为人妻

Bobby和Shawn和Brandy都回到了北京他们身边来来去去的一大群人也都在北京而我回到了英国从纽卡斯尔到伯明翰到伦敦我在狂风不止的英国安家落户

 

27.

2005年在北京,我有一头正红色的,齐腰的长直头发。

 

29.

关于Brandy我还能记录下一些什么。

我是否已经记录下她的全貌?

我是否已经完成这一组作品的初衷,企图记录下心中一段珍视的历史……

有时我觉得一切是徒劳的。

记忆会变形,会遗漏,历史也许早已吹散在风中。

Brandy当然不是我上述所写下的任何样子。我无法以区区数段文字将她困于其中。

Brandy只是Brandy。或者连Brandy也不是。

Brandy只是一个中国女孩在2003年取给自己的一个英文名字。

关于Brandy,我还能说些什么。

 

30.

大概是2005年前后的某年暑假我住在

Brandy北京的家Brandy和我同住一

间她爸爸住在另一间几乎给予充分自由

不大过问我们的生活那是一栋老式筒子

楼电梯里每天坐一个大妈专职询问我们

住几楼然后帮我们按电梯每到夜晚12

点电梯会停运那段时间喝酒夜归的Brandy

和我在深夜爬过无数次楼梯而她家住在

十楼每次爬楼之前站在楼下我们都要花

半天时间鼓足勇气有几天她一个高中闺

蜜来了我们一起去看了Simple Plan的

现场演唱会三个人挤在Brandy的双人床

上化妆品混成一堆互相使用但我不喜欢

那个女孩就像后来我也不喜欢兔姐原因

很简单大概就是我很喜欢Brandy吧一次

那个高中闺蜜大汗淋漓后使用我的粉扑

补妆弄得粉扑臭烘烘的第二天我把粉扑

扔了另一件事是Brandy的爸爸向我妈告

密说我遇上点儿麻烦于是我妈毫无预兆

地飞来北京逮我我就满北京城跑啊躲啊

记忆中那时我脚步飞快眼睛又干净又勇

敢真的那时候我一点儿也不害怕那是多

少年前的事情了那个夏天逃跑成功的我

们站在太阳炙烈的阳台上抽烟身后的电

脑循环播放着Simple Plan的Perfect嘿

爸爸看看我我按照你的意愿长大了吗我

只想让你为我骄傲但我们都失败了很抱

歉我不完美很抱歉我不完美

 

混合文本Brandy的完整版即将出版并可购买(双语/美国)。