The pure products of America

纯粹的美国产物

go crazy—

疯了——

mountain folk from Kentucky

来自肯塔基的山里人

或来自泽西市

or the ribbed north end of

肋状地貌的北端

Jersey

那里有孤立的湖泊和

with its isolate lakes and

溪谷、聋哑人、小偷

古老的名字

valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves

以及恣意的交媾

old names

不顾一切的男人，投身于

and promiscuity between

铁路事业

只为满足强烈的冒险欲

devil-may-care men who have taken

年轻的邋遢女人

to railroading

从周一到周六，都泡在

out of sheer lust of adventure—

污秽中

只有那一夜会精心打扮

and young slatterns, bathed

戴上艳俗的首饰

in filth

她们平日的想象，毫无

from Monday to Saturday

农民传统赋予的

品格

to be tricked out that night

只知扭捏撩拨

with gauds

破衣裳——屈从着，不带

from imaginations which have no

情感

只有麻木的恐惧

peasant traditions to give them

在某处野樱桃篱墙下

character

或是荚蒾——

but flutter and flaunt

这些她们表达不了——

除非有了，那段婚姻

sheer rags-succumbing without

或许

emotion

带点印第安血统

save numbed terror

会呕出一个女孩，她如此悲惨

被疾病或谋杀

under some hedge of choke-cherry

团团包围

or viburnum-

然后会被某个

which they cannot express—

事务官搭救——

由州政府抚养长大

Unless it be that marriage

十五岁时被送出去打工

perhaps

在某个困顿的

with a dash of Indian blood

郊区家庭——

某个医生的家人，某个艾尔西——

will throw up a girl so desolate

丰腴性感的水

so hemmed round

用损坏的脑子

with disease or murder

表达着关于我们的真相——

她那硕大的

that she'll be rescued by an

肥臀和扑腾的乳房

agent—

奉献给廉价的

reared by the state and

珠宝

和眼睛好看的年轻富人

sent out at fifteen to work in

仿佛我们脚下的土地

some hard-pressed

是

house in the suburbs—

某个天空的排泄物

我们，堕落的囚徒

some doctor's family, some Elsie—

注定

voluptuous water

挨饿，直到吃下污秽

expressing with broken

而想象力却拼命

追逐鹿群

brain the truth about us—

穿过一枝黄花的花田

her great

在九月令人窒息的酷热中

ungainly hips and flopping breasts

出于某种原因

它似乎要毁了我们

addressed to cheap

只有在孤立的碎片中

jewelry

某些东西

and rich young men with fine eyes

才被释放

没有人

as if the earth under our feet

去见证

were

或调整，没有人驾驶那辆汽车

an excrement of some sky

and we degraded prisoners

destined

to hunger until we eat filth

while the imagination strains

after deer

going by fields of goldenrod in

the stifling heat of September

Somehow

it seems to destroy us

It is only in isolate flecks that

something

is given off

No one

to witness

and adjust, no one to drive the car