躺下，你就是水平的。

Lie down, you are horizontal.

站起来，你就不是。

Stand up, you are not.

我要求我的命运成为人。

I wanted my fate to be human.

好比芳香

Like a perfume

并不择路而行，

that does not choose the direction it travels,

不分曲直，不能阻止也无法留存。

that cannot be straight or crooked, kept out or kept.

是，否，或

Yes, No, Or

——一天，一辈子，从三者间滑过，

—a day, a life, slips through them,

蜕掉第三层皮，

taking off the third skin,

蜕掉第四层。

taking off the fourth.

鞋子的逻辑终于变得简单，

The logic of shoes becomes at last simple,

一个动物的问题，磨损。

an animal question, scuffing.

旧鞋子，必经之路——

Old shoes, old roads—

问题不断更新。

the questions keep being new ones.

正如两个负数乘以雨水

Like two negative numbers multiplied by rain

得到橘子和橄榄。

into oranges and olives.