as a door-nail
and gone          to the world
air           broke drop
nothing is certain but           and taxes
mask            knell            grip
blow             metal           rattle
food for worms sticky end brown bread
or alive valiant to the             la    la la
wish I were           yeah right you wish

“預習” © 2009 Yau Ching. By arrangement with the author. English translation © 2020 by Chenxin Jiang. All rights reserved.

^{Listen to Yau Ching read “Trial Run” in the original Cantonese}

未知生焉知
不能復生視    如歸  而無憾
出生入    一線間   生契濶
輕於鴻毛   而後已而復生
不瞑目不足惜
寧   不屈   鳴不默
一雞一鳴撐飯蓋鴨升天
憂患不終無安樂   啦    啦啦
未    得呢你就想

“預習” © 2009 Yau Ching. By arrangement with the author. All rights reserved.