In I Want to Live with You, poet Shun-Hua Tsui crafts a longing for companionable peace that paradoxically exposes the desolate nature of solitude. This episode follows her deep bond with her cats and takes us into the quiet world of pet funeral rituals, confronting the raw inevitability of loss. As indie band Bob Is Tired reshapes her verse into a wall of punk sound, this creative clash moves beyond trying to erase loneliness, offering instead a way to gently hold our trauma. Though harsh realities and mortality remain beyond our control, we retain the freedom of the mind: the power to choose love, transform our grief, and create meaning every single day.
Can a single poem change the world? "Like a Rolling Poem 2" continues the spirit of poetry-based musical documentary, filming and producing six poems transformed into songs — confronting the existential questions of our time head-on: "I Want to Live with You" explores loneliness and longing for self; "Lullaby of the North-Link Railway" gazes at the turning of eras and the fear of farewell; "A Romantic Thing" dissects trauma and the pathological attachment born from love and hatred sharing the same root; "The Cat That Walks Through Walls" reflects on the illusion and imperfection amid historical displacement; "Watching for a Longer While" overturns the equivalence between love and hatred, choosing tenderness instead; and finally, "Doomsday Blues" faces geopolitical crisis head-on, finding resilience in the everyday. This is not only an encounter between modern poetry and contemporary music, but also a philosophical inquiry into humanity. Even if the world is but an illusion, a fleeting dream, we still hold the freedom to choose kindness and love — and with that, we keep beating, keep rolling on.
