太聪明 (Too Smart)

By Sarah Field

This piece is about my experience listening to the song 太聰明 by-陳綺貞(Cheer Chen)

I feel like a small bug in a borrowed corner of the world, nestled within the hushed chambers of a bug hotel, where time drifts like dust caught in a beam of light. The walls are paper-thin, trembling with the murmurs of lives I will never touch, languages I will never quite decipher. Beyond this fragile cocoon, the world hums with its sharp-edged machinery, ticking forward with the precision of clock hands and city streets. But here, everything softens—bathed in the glow of neon lullabies, wrapped in the hush of late-night radio static from the song 太聰明 by-陳綺貞 (Cheer Chen). 

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