Poet Hung Hung’s Doomsday Blues directly confronts cross-strait and geopolitical volatility. Traversing Taipei’s Bo'ai Special Zone and protest sites, the episode traces Taiwan's democratic progression—from the Formosa Incident and martial law's end to marriage equality—while showing how the band KST translates this poem into a powerful track. Facing an inescapable sense of looming deadlines, the poet reflects on history alongside his son, discovering the resilience of everyday life in uncertain times and delivering the message of hope.
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.
