To sleep with you or to be slept, what’s the difference if there’s any?

其实，睡你和被你睡是差不多的，无非是

Two bodies collide – the force, the flower pushed open by the force,

两具肉体碰撞的力，无非是这力催开的花朵

the virtual spring in the flowering – nothing more than this

无非是这花朵虚拟出的春天让我们误以为生命被重新打开

and this we mistake as life restarting. In half of China

大半个中国，什么都在发生：火山在喷，河流在枯

things are happening: volcanoes

一些不被关心的政治犯和流民

erupting, rivers running dry,

一路在枪口的麋鹿和丹顶鹤

political prisoners and displaced workers abandoned,

我是穿过枪林弹雨去睡你

elk deer and red-crowned cranes shot.

我是把无数的黑夜摁进一个黎明去睡你

I cross the hail of bullets to sleep with you.

我是无数个我奔跑成一个我去睡你

I press many nights into one morning to sleep with you.

当然我也会被一些蝴蝶带入歧途

I run across many of me and many of me run into one to sleep with you.

把一些赞美当成春天

Yet I can be misled by butterflies of course

把一个和横店类似的村庄当成故乡

and mistake praise as spring,

而它们

a village like Hengdian as home. But all these,

都是我去睡你必不可少的理由

all of these are absolutely indispensable

reasons that I sleep with you.