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Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Ruan-Xiang-Yang (Nikolai Nguyen Nikitin) 阮 向 陽


April, Wuhan Metro to Berlin (柏林)?


I have been wandering around.

Why are there no aliens?

I am back from abroad

and look for my father's grave.

Oh! Look at his tour after death–

from Tycoon Hill to Shoulder-pole Hill–

the MECCA of Wuhan in April.

Metro Line 4 to there!

The terminal station is Berlin?

Yeah, 柏林 (Bailin / Berlin).

Train is speeding.

Immortal Music seems to ring

(Valter Brani Sarajevo Theme).

Father is Modern Battle Angel?

The Last Fight?

Padeniye Berlina!

Padeniye Berlina!

He was murdered in 1984.

He was born at Hankow, 1937.

Russian, Deutsch and Mandarin

are his languages.

I don't know

why I still miss

the May Day Parade

after the Berlin Wall fell.

Oktoberfest, I enjoy Beer and Wurst.

I also like Vodka and Kebab.

I know the difference

between Prussia and Russia,

only one "P"!

When I was a high school student

I had to translate "Berin"

into 白靈 / 白陵 (Bailing / Mausoleum of White People).

At this moment,

several city names come to my mind

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl...

I seem to see

mushroom clouds

floating in the sky over Berlin.


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