He gets a Scandinavian living room set.

他得到一套北歐家私

He gets an earplug.

他得到一個耳塞

He gets a wig.

他得到一頭假髮

He gets a floating watermelon.

他得到一枚浮瓜

He gets a nightgown,

他得到一襲睡袍

and a Chinese chiropractor.

和一個跌打醫生

He gets two rich aunts,

他得到兩個富有的姑母

and a parrot.

和一頭鸚鵡

He gets a computer screen,

他得到一副電腦

and a world of red, orange, yellow, blue and green.

以及紅橙黃綠青藍寶

He gets a pension,

他得到公積金

commissions, wedding and funeral booties.

佣金、禮金和帛金

He gets complimentary tickets to the movies,

他得到戲院的贈券

invitations to cocktail parties,

酒會的請卡

second-hand toothbrushes at special discount.

特別折扣的二手牙刷

He gets a self-cleaning file-cabinet,

他得到自動清理的文件櫃

an alarm clock that never stops ringing.

永不停嘴的鬧鐘

He gets his own investigating committee

他得到兩打英國人

formed by two dozen Englishmen.

組成的調查委員會

He gets the chair of the chairman of the Philosophical Society.

他得到哲學學會主席的椅子

He gets the exclusive right of indigenous arts.

他得到鄉土藝術的專利權

He gets a stock that keeps rising

他得到一隻不斷上升的股票

and a building that keeps on sinking.

一所不斷下沉的大厦

I am left empty-handed.

只有我

Every time I look up,

仍然兩手空空

I seem to hear

每次仰望

people laughing in the distance.

就仿佛聽見

I wander through

有人在遠處發笑

dark clouds and intermittent rain.

迂迴穿過

The dice I throw

陰雲和陣雨

score the lowest total.

撒下的骰子

I buy a newspaper

是最少的點數

and miss my ferry.

買了報紙

I sit at the pier

卻錯過渡輪

and fish with cigarette tins.

坐在碼頭

I wait for the next train at the wrong station.

用香煙罐子釣魚

I am a horse

在錯誤的火車站

on a highway.

等候下一班車

She gets a canned husband,

在高速公路上

and a bunch of motorized relatives.

做一匹馬

She gets a new set of fingernails,

她得到一個罐頭丈夫

eyebrows and nose.

和一群電動的親戚

She gets the title of vice-chairman

她得到一套全新的指甲

of all associations.

眉毛和鼻子

She gets four crocodiles that can sing,

她得到一切聯會

a hippopotamus that sends flowers regularly,

副主席的名銜

a big hairy tortoise that requires talk.

她得到四尾會唱歌的鱷魚

She gets a hair net.

準時送花的河馬

She gets two bloody hearts.

守候在街角的犀牛

She gets the kind of vacuum cleaner

可資談論的大毛龜

her neighbor Asou bought just last week.

她得到一個髪罩

She gets identical dust to go with it.

她得到兩顆血淋淋的心

She gets twelve certified university entrance examination approvals.

她得到鄰居阿秀上周買的

She gets as bonus

那種吸塵機

small dishes offered by all the different brands of soy sauces

她得到那種灰塵

I am empty handed

她得到十二種官方認的

sitting by the clogged up river

大學入學試的資格

singing a song off-key.

她得到所有不同牌子醬油

It is cold

送出的小碟

and I forget an overcoat.

只有我

In the empty wicker chair

仍然兩手空空

now sits someone

坐在淤塞的河邊

wearing a scarf,

唱一支藍色的歌

and a flower.

天氣這麼冷

We are tossing coins.

卻忘了大衣

luck is head

空的籐椅上

and I get the tail.

已經坐着個人

I am always in the wrong queue,

圍上圍巾

getting the worst kind of bread.

戴上鮮花

Our neighbour trendy and smart

並且投擲銀幣

has borrowed our flowers for the occasion

幸運是頭像

and left us the tedious jobs.

開出的是字

People carry off their winnings

我總排錯了隊

and hurry to hide them.

買到最壞的麵包

I am still here, walking slowly.

時髦的鄰居

Goodbye, sir.

借去鮮花參加盛宴

Goodbye,

留下我替他做各種討厭的差使

madam.

人們捧着抽到的東西

I shout from behind,

趕着跑去把獎品收藏

goodbye,

我仍在這裏

pumpkin and corn,

慢慢地走

take care not to trip

再會了先生

carrying so many things walking.

再會了

But they think I am trying to catch up

女士

and walk all the faster.

我在後面叫

再會了

南瓜和玉蜀黍

捧着這麼多東西走路

小心不要摔倒

但他們以為我要趕上去

卻都跑得更快了