Don’t ask who you are or who I am

别问我你是谁、我是谁

and why what is, is.

以及为什么万物是其自身。

Let the professors sort it out,

让教授们去厘清吧，

it’s their job.

那是他们该做的。

Place the scale on the kitchen table

把家用天平放在餐桌上，

and let reality weigh itself.

让现实秤自己的重。

Put your coat on.

穿上外衣。

Turn the light off in the hallway.

关掉门廊里的灯。

Close the door.

关上门。

Let the dead embalm the dead.

让死者给死者防腐吧。

Here we walk now.

我们现在去走走。

The one wearing white rubber boots

穿白色胶靴的

is you.

是你，

The one wearing black rubber boots

穿黑色胶靴的

is me.

是我，

And the rain falling on both of us

而落在我们两人身上的雨

is the rain.

是雨。