day and night

Ayu and Yang participated in a Halloween party that was said to be specially held for poetry lovers. On the night of the party, Ayu worked overtime temporarily, and because of the traffic jam on the road, they arrived at the coffee shop more than an hour late. Poetry was being discussed, no one was even talking, and young boys and girls lurched about in the dark coffee shop.Some of them were smoking waterpipes, and some were concentrating on rolling cigarettes. Someone lit a cigarette and handed it to Yang. Yang took a sip and handed it to Ayu.Ayu didn't move, Yang gently hooked Ayu, and said to him: "You are already spoiling the atmosphere by dressing like this."

Ayu didn't have time to change her costume, so Yang made a retro British dress, with black-framed round glasses on the bridge of her nose, looking playful.

Ayu still didn't take the cigarette, Yang took another puff, his speech became slower, he leaned on Ayu and said, "Don't be so rigid."

Ayu helped Yang go to the bar and sit down, but Yang was quickly called away. Someone in the corner of the coffee shop was showing a collection of poems with a slide projector, flipping page by page, and projecting page by page on the white curtain superior.

Yang sat by the slide projector and called Ayu to come over. Ayu made a gesture, asked the bartender for a bottle of beer, and sat down at the bar.

The coffee shop was filled with smoke, Ah Yu drank two sips of wine, and when he looked at Yang again, he was wolfing down a piece of cake with cream on his hands and chin.Someone seemed to be talking to him, and he kept nodding.

"Do you drink beer?" A man blocked Ayu's sight. Ayu raised his head to look at him. The man was about 27 or [-] years old, with fair skin and black hair. He had a row of pierced ears on his left ear. Alice, he drew very thick eyeliner.

The eyeliner knocked on the bar and said to the bartender, "I want a glass of the poet's tears."

Ayu drank beer, squeezed out a smile and said, "I came with my boyfriend."

The eyeliner man said nonchalantly: "The people who come here don't have boyfriends or girlfriends. Some didn't have them one second ago, but they didn't have them the next second, and some didn't have them one second ago, and they got them the next second."

He pointed to the person flipping through the poetry collection behind the slide projector: "He flips through the poems faster than he flips through the books."

Ayu asked, "Are you a poet?"

The man with eyeliner sat down next to him, and the bartender brought over a glass of cocktail. The man with eyeliner pushed the goblet in front of Ayu: "Try it."

Ayu just laughed, the eyeliner snorted, and raised his glass to drink, he said, "Yes."

He added: "I like you."

Ayu asked, "What did you write?"

"Do you want to hear it?"

Ayu shook her head: "No, I'm not interested."

"Then you ask again?"

"I'm just curious if poets wear eye makeup."

The eyeliner man laughed, he looked at Ayu intently: "What are you pretending to be today?"

"what?"

"Halloween," said the eyeliner man, "I played as a poet with eyeliner on."

It was Ayu's turn to laugh, and he said, "That's what you see."

The eyeliner inspected Ayu from head to toe, and said, "Okay, so you're pretending to be a human, so what's under your human skin? A wolf or a sheep?"

Ayu found Yang in the crowd and said, "Someone's boyfriend."

The man with eyeliner glanced over and said blankly, "Oh, the cash machine."

"Fortunately, he will AA with me."

"Money is money, sex is money, and love is money." The eyeliner man smacked his lips, raised his hands, and said, "I believe you AA, youth is also money."

Ayu smiled and rolled his eyes, and asked him, "Will you add these lines to your poetry collection?"

The eyeliner man disdains: "Who still reads poetry, looking for romance? Come on, "A Brief History of Time" is more romantic than poetry anthologies."

"Where's the romance?"

"It tells you that some things in this world really never change."

The man with eyeliner lit a cigarette and handed it to Ayu, but Ayu didn't want it, so he took two puffs himself, exhaled a smoke ring intoxicatedly, his eyes drifted gently to the place where the lights were dim, and said in a low voice: "I ask you, are you happy?" Well, you answer me, I wish you happiness, but I, as for me, forget it."

Ayu raised the wine bottle: "Happy Halloween."

The man with eyeliner hooked his lips contemptuously.Ayu made a gesture of surrender: "Okay, I know, a poet with eyeliner and not very happy, this is your Halloween costume."

The eyeliner man said unhappily: "Why do you want me to be happy if you wish me happiness? Then if you wish me unhappy, will I be unhappy accordingly? Besides, I have too many unhappy things, I am unhappy, there is no way Happiness, I have no right to be happy, so don’t wish me happiness, this kind of blessing is useless, I don’t need it, don’t give me what I don’t need.”

Ayu frowned, and made a gesture to signal the eyeliner man to calm down.The eyeliner man is still aggressive: "And is it really important to you whether I am happy or not? How long have we known each other? 5 minutes? 10 minutes? You are so generous to bless me, so sincerely want me to be happy, you care so much about me , Do you love me? Stranger, don’t I want to be flattered, I like you, and you love me, then we are really happy, and the two of us should turn into butterflies.”

"That's not a good story." Ayu cleared his throat, put down the money for the drink, and said, "I think I should go back."

With that said, he stood up.The man with eyeliner chuckled, which made him look even more arrogant and unreasonable, and he pointed towards Ayu in the direction of the toilet.

Yang's figure flashed by the door of the toilet.

The eyeliner raised his glass and shouted: "Happy Halloween everyone!!"

He whistled sharply, and the coffee shop was silent, only the hookah was bubbling and bubbling.

The eyeliner finished off the cocktail and said cursingly, "Fuck it, no one cares what holiday it is, they just want to drink, get drunk, and smoke f**k!"

Ayu tilted his head and smiled, he squinted at the eyeliner man, the eyeliner man raised his eyebrows, but didn't make a sound.

Ayu asked him, "Do you want to go somewhere else?"

The eyeliner burped: "Didn't you have a boyfriend just now?"

He was still arrogant, and his eyes were condescending.

With a low voice, Ayu pointed at the slide projector: "Now it's the second page of No.80."

The eyeliner bit his lip and smiled: "It seems that there is only one thing in this world that is eternal."

Ayu pointed to the sky: "The universe or God?"

"not lonely."

The eyeliner hooked his fingers at Ayu, his arm rested on Ayu's shoulder, his lips pressed against Ayu's earlobe, and he whispered to Ayu, "Should we call the police?"