Post-Human

“Fire Refinement”: an archaic Southern Chinese fire worship rite still practiced in Pan’an County of Zhejiang province. The climax of “Fire Refinement” is characterized by worshippers holding steel blades, dancing their way through “firing” mountains at midnight of certain important dates on Chinese lunar year calendar.

What else must I do

to be your subject?

See man half naked

Listen devil laughters

Have my captives uphold blades defend the inferno

Slay into my soul the fire that never been put out!

Flesh blessed in the midst of burning

Blazed is the coldness greater than moon

My colourless shadow is the new visage of fire

Let the children of fire to select wisemen

 for the next millenium.

Infants awakened now,

whose first sight meets smoke, siquidem,

will be immune to insonmina

for the rest of life.

All pains are exposed to the

penetration of their nerves.

Spider web as swaddling,

ash as frankincense,

we quietly awaiting

you to sway darkness-blessing

canstellation!

In the name of fire,

I expound time is merely a fabrication,

let man virginal like fire

to chair the trial of

the Creator not

run away timely.

My life is a prolonged death.

Living off but dirt though,

you elegantly subdue all cretatures

obessessive of their own stupidity.

Whoever survives your punishment,

like you,

would be immortal

like you,

would be unworshipped by the herd.

Me, on behalf of them,

just got one question to render you,

why a hymn easy like this,

wasn’t authored by anybody

earlier?