A Romantic Moonshine
_____ I claim silly speeches seriously,
sometimes.
He read me A romantic poem;
slowly and gently
about an hour under the velvety moonlight
while we were taking round and round at a snail’s pace.
‘ How do you think?’ he asked.
‘There are many new words. I need to look over a dictionary, which I don’t have one.’ faithfully and helplessly I responded.
... A throwback to my first few months at university in England, I was nervous and struggling about my poor listening to adapt British accent.
Tho I was looked like the photo above but acting like the silly self-portrait also above.
I remembered that I realised the tutor was saying the simple word as ‘ruler’
thirty minutes later, just RULER!
Anyway… related to this experience I’d like to introduce to you a book, which was a therapy to me at the time — — feeling I had a silly company but we had romance indeed.
LANGUAGE by Xiaolu Guo
It always made me laugh and touching.
___ LyChi, 29 May 2021
