“Sonnet in Infinitives” by Changming Yuan

To be a matter when there’s no question

Or not to be a question when nothing really matters

To sing with a frog squatting straight

On a lotus leaf in the Honghu Lake near Jingzhou

To recollect all the past, and mix them

Together like a glass of cocktail

To build a nest of meaning

Between two broken branches on Ygdrasil

To strive for deity

Longevity. and

Even happiness

To come. on and off line every other while

To compress consciousness into a file, ad upload it

Onto a nomochip

To be daying, to die