A person protests to fate:

一個人向命運抗議：

"The things you have caused

「你致使我

me most to want

最想要的東西

are those that furthest elude me."

最遙不可及。」

Fate nods.

命運點頭。

Fate is sympathetic.

命運有同情心。

To tie the shoes, button a shirt,

系上鞋帶，系上襯衫鈕扣，

are triumphs

是一種凱旋，

for only the very young,

僅僅對那些年幼者

the very old.

和年老者。

During the long middle:

而在這漫長的時間中：

conjugating a rivet

給一顆鉚釘變位

mastering tango

精通探戈

training the cat to stay off the table

訓練一隻貓不跳上桌子

preserving a single moment longer than this one

儲存起比此刻更長久的一瞬

continuing to wake whatever has happened the day before

持續喚醒前一天所發生的

and the penmanships love practices inside the body.

還有愛的書法在身體裏踐行。