You remember everything on the map is going to fade

Everything there will fade
Like the roof, like the door lock
You remember the eyes crawling on the map at night
No one saw us running through the alley in the rain
Take away the panic fire

The busy words lie down in order
Love and hate come back late as usual
You whisper in the city's ear
Don't worry, the memories are all here
Today won't pass.

Chen Yulu's third poetry collection, "You Remember Everything on the Map Will Fade," uses the streets and alleys of Taipei City as the warp and rain and moonlight as the weft, weaving seventy-five gradually mottled memories.
The poet once tried to piece together a familiar sound of footsteps at a bustling intersection, but ultimately had to betray the city's logic, laughing amid the clamor with a sound no one understood. The stars falling on the grasslands at dawn gently unfold people's dreams, allowing easily lost secrets to bloom layer by layer within the ashes. Have we passed the age where we can start over?
Picking up fallen petals, all the flowers in this city have blossomed into your image. And can you and I, penniless, reach that long-dormant hometown in our lifetime?

I can do the most amazing thing for you
It's fake moonlight
The real brightness is for you
The stolen coldness is collected by myself
──〈Xuchang Street〉

Chen Yulu

A Taipei native who grew up outside the Tianlong Pass, he studied political science in Taipei, international politics and economics in Tokyo, and cultural research in London. He currently works as a writer, translator, screenwriter, and planner. He has received a National Arts Council Creative Grant, the New Taipei City Literature Award (essay), the Taichung Literature Award (fiction and new poetry), the Taocheng Literature Award (essay), the Keelung Ocean Literature Award (essay), the King Car Modern Poetry Online Essay Contest (new poetry), the Pan Science Fiction Award (fiction), the Times Literature Award (new poetry), and the Liang Shih-chiu Literature Award (essay). His poetry collections include "Filling Up Day by Day, Flooding Irregularly" and "At Least One Light in the Stairwell Isn't On."

Prologue: Waiting for the Summer to End in the Laundromat
001 Linsen North Road
002 Taiyuan Road
003 Yanchang Road
004 Qingcheng Street
005 Chongqing South Road
006 Dehui Street
007 Nanhai Road
008 Xuchang Street
009 Civic Avenue
010 Wenzhou Street
011 Dunhua South Road
012 Chang'an East Road
013 Xinhai Road
014 Jinshan North Road
015 Keelung Road
016 Dongxin Street
017 Xining South Road
018 Zhongxiao East Road
019 Xinsheng South Road
020 Weishui Road
021 Anton Street
022 Songqin Road
023 Nanjing West Road
024 Changde Street
025 Changchun Road
026 Jianguo North Road
027 Kangding Road
028 Neijiang Street
029 Tai'an Street
030 Minsheng East Road
031 Songlong Road
032 Wenchang Street
033 Lianyun Street
034 Chang'an West Road
035 Zhongxiao West Road
036 Shaoxing North Street
037 Daan Road
038 Huaining Street
039 Ren'ai Road
040 Songren Road
041 Jinxi Street
042 Huanhe North Road
043 Tacheng Street
044 Jilin Road
045 Zhongnan Street
046 Baoqing Street
047 Jingmao 2nd Road
048 Nangang Road
049 Sanmin Road
050 Embankment Avenue
051 Mingshui Road
052 Ningbo West Street
053 Yongsui Street
054 Youyang Street
055 Xiushan Street
056 Youth Road
057 Healthy Road
058 Songjiang Road
059 Minzu East Road
060 Nanning Road
061 Xuzhou Road
062 Chengde Road
063 Zhongshan North Road
064 Heping East Road
065 Zhoushan Road
066 Roosevelt Road
067 Siyuan Street
068 Guangfu South Road
069 Jinzhou Street
070 Quanzhou Street
071 Guanqian Road
072 Nanchang Road
073 Zhenjiang Street
074 Guilin Road
075 Fuxing North Road Postscript Arrangements for the Day After Tomorrow