如何好好去爱的忠告：别去爱

Advice for good love: Don’t love

那些身处遥远的，为你自己

those from far away.  Take yourself one

就近选择一个。

from nearby.

修建一座夺目的房子将

The way a sensible house will take

使用本地的石头，

local stones for its building,

那些石头经受了同样的寒冷

stones which have suffered in the same cold

也被同样的烈日炙烤。

and were scorched by the same sun.

选择黑色瞳孔被金色花环

Take the one with the golden wreath

所围绕的那一个，她

around her dark eye’s pupil, she

对你的死亡有

who has a certain knowledge

一定的认识。爱情也存在于

about your death.  Love also inside

一个废墟里，就像从参孙杀死的

a ruin, like taking honey out of

狮子尸骸里取出蜂蜜。

the lion’s carcass that Samson killed.

还有如何糟糕地去爱的忠告：用

And advice for bad love: With

前一人那里

the love left over

剩下的爱

from the previous one

为你自己造一个新的女人，

make a new woman for yourself,

然后用这个女人所剩下的

then with what is left of that woman

再造一个新的爱。

make again a new love,

继续这样下去

and go on like that

直到什么都不剩。

until nothing remains.