This represents another pond or the ends of the earth; Small Central
is not in the center, meaning the biggest it is not; either it is about being mainstream
or not mainstream. It is just wishing that, there is, an alley
quiet and tranquil, time to look after oneself.

Time stretches, continually, endlessly—
will it thus give birth to different sunlights and moon haloes?
I asked Small Central, when it was not in the center. Small Central said
the stretched time often spills out of the pond,
and becomes the ends of the earth.



Notes:
I was chatting over tea at my friend Jing-Hong's place one summer afternoon in 2002.
He said he would like to open a bookstore in the alley next to
the Central Bookstore and call it Small Central.