Advice for good love: Don’t love

如何好好去爱的忠告：别去爱

those from far away.  Take yourself one

那些身处遥远的，为你自己

from nearby.

就近选择一个。

The way a sensible house will take

修建一座夺目的房子将

local stones for its building,

使用本地的石头，

stones which have suffered in the same cold

那些石头经受了同样的寒冷

and were scorched by the same sun.

也被同样的烈日炙烤。

Take the one with the golden wreath

选择黑色瞳孔被金色花环

around her dark eye’s pupil, she

所围绕的那一个，她

who has a certain knowledge

对你的死亡有

about your death.  Love also inside

一定的认识。爱情也存在于

a ruin, like taking honey out of

一个废墟里，就像从参孙杀死的

the lion’s carcass that Samson killed.

狮子尸骸里取出蜂蜜。

And advice for bad love: With

还有如何糟糕地去爱的忠告：用

the love left over

前一人那里

from the previous one

剩下的爱

make a new woman for yourself,

为你自己造一个新的女人，

then with what is left of that woman

然后用这个女人所剩下的

make again a new love,

再造一个新的爱。

and go on like that

继续这样下去

until nothing remains.

直到什么都不剩。