[Afternoon Poem] Mulgeum Station (勿禁驛) / Seong Yun-seok

Water and Geum have multiple meanings. Mulgeum is a coastal city where school uniforms are thrown off; it is found on the shoulders of minors and also on the upper body of a boat floating broken on the water. Upon arriving at the station, they say there is no sea, and that there is nothing forbidden. I misunderstood. Even without forbidding, the evening lights that forbid are turned on, and inside one side of the heart, despite committing everything, there is a forbidding expression. Only under the April cherry blossoms at Mulgeum Station did I release it as a soliloquy. Some expressions become a station (驛).

■ Although "Water and Geum have multiple meanings," the combined term 'Mulgeum' generally means "not forbidding" or "there is nothing forbidden." 'Prohibition' is the point where desire is born. The instruction not to enter the lawn strangely arouses the desire to break it. In this context, the word 'Mulgeum' is quite peculiar. If nothing is forbidden, that is, if everything is permitted, desire cannot arise in the first place. The sentence "There is no sea at Mulgeum Station" is both a statement of fact and a metaphor for this situation. However, astonishingly, desire creates its host even in such a 'Mulgeum Station.' Even through misunderstanding ("I misunderstood"). In short, by forbidding what is not forbidden, it creates that prohibition?the "forbidding evening lights." Desire does not know prohibition. This statement precisely includes its opposite. ? Poet Chaesangwoo

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