Therefore, some literary researchers once said that 8090 is a generation without poetry. In fact, it makes sense, at least there are few people around who like poetry and talk about it. Today we are going to talk about Xu Lizhi. Baidu Encyclopedia described him like this.
Before 20 14, 10, 1, Xu Lizhi was an assembly line worker of Foxconn in Shenzhen. I can imagine that his daily life is full of capitalist oppression. Seeing all his Weibo, I feel how heavy and powerless this teenager's life is. Without entertainment and leisure, he often uses short poems to describe people like him who are like assemblers and have a heavy burden. But he didn't lose his dream. He had great dreams for the future, and he also studied Snow Maiden and Kawabata Yasunari.
It can be seen that this young man has his own spiritual world besides completing a hard day's work. He yearns for love. He even dreams that one day life will no longer be helpless because of money. He also yearns for the day when he can go home in clothes. All these things he wrote in his own poems. At his age, there should be a more colorful world, but he left school early for his life and wanted to change the status quo at home.
Although he works in Foxconn, the world's largest foundry, for him, two shifts during the day and night are nothing more than a salary system. Perhaps poetry is his only fantasy about the world. Of course, no one cares about the spiritual world of young people who work like him except work.
In fact, seeing his Weibo and poems, I have already seen signs of depression and mental stress. He accurately wrote the plight, injustice, endless overtime and unpaid wages of migrant workers with his own poems, as well as the famous "Foxconn 13 jump" among comrades.
It is said that Xu Lizhi's poems are very popular among migrant workers because they are grounded. They are easy to understand and rhyme, but they are full of true feelings and colorful. In fact, a month before his death, a famous publisher planned to publish his own poems and make a documentary about part-time poets. Xu Lizhi is one of the six people interviewed. Unfortunately, a week before the shooting team set off, he left in a deep jump.
Maybe Xu Lizhi is lucky. At least he recorded his short life in poetry. Today, we can still feel a teenager's yearning for the world, which makes more people pay attention to the workers on the assembly line because of him. In addition to piece-rate wages, they also need poetry and distance, they also need affection, friendship and love, and they also need the goodwill and care of the world.
The last Weibo in Xu Lizhi was issued at 0: 00 on 14 10, and the content was: a new day! When sending this Weibo, he had already jumped off the building. This is the sending time he wrote and set before he left.
After Xu Lizhi left, some writers' representatives held several rounds of negotiations with his company and won the biggest compensation for his family. He was also buried at sea according to his wishes. In the world of poetry, Xu Lizhi is gone, and not many people miss him. The workers in his dormitory worked in black and white shifts as usual the next day.
Xu Lizhi's poetry anthology has been published by caring people with the name "A New Day", his last cry to the world. Without him, the documentary will be finished soon. Only in this way can we commemorate a teenager who loves poetry.