纯粹的美国产物

The pure products of America

疯了——

go crazy—

来自肯塔基的山里人

mountain folk from Kentucky

或来自泽西市

肋状地貌的北端

or the ribbed north end of

那里有孤立的湖泊和

Jersey

溪谷、聋哑人、小偷

with its isolate lakes and

古老的名字

以及恣意的交媾

valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves

不顾一切的男人，投身于

old names

铁路事业

and promiscuity between

只为满足强烈的冒险欲

年轻的邋遢女人

devil-may-care men who have taken

从周一到周六，都泡在

to railroading

污秽中

out of sheer lust of adventure—

只有那一夜会精心打扮

戴上艳俗的首饰

and young slatterns, bathed

她们平日的想象，毫无

in filth

农民传统赋予的

from Monday to Saturday

品格

只知扭捏撩拨

to be tricked out that night

破衣裳——屈从着，不带

with gauds

情感

from imaginations which have no

只有麻木的恐惧

在某处野樱桃篱墙下

peasant traditions to give them

或是荚蒾——

character

这些她们表达不了——

but flutter and flaunt

除非有了，那段婚姻

或许

sheer rags-succumbing without

带点印第安血统

emotion

会呕出一个女孩，她如此悲惨

save numbed terror

被疾病或谋杀

团团包围

under some hedge of choke-cherry

然后会被某个

or viburnum-

事务官搭救——

which they cannot express—

由州政府抚养长大

十五岁时被送出去打工

Unless it be that marriage

在某个困顿的

perhaps

郊区家庭——

with a dash of Indian blood

某个医生的家人，某个艾尔西——

丰腴性感的水

will throw up a girl so desolate

用损坏的脑子

so hemmed round

表达着关于我们的真相——

with disease or murder

她那硕大的

肥臀和扑腾的乳房

that she'll be rescued by an

奉献给廉价的

agent—

珠宝

reared by the state and

和眼睛好看的年轻富人

仿佛我们脚下的土地

sent out at fifteen to work in

是

some hard-pressed

某个天空的排泄物

house in the suburbs—

我们，堕落的囚徒

注定

some doctor's family, some Elsie—

挨饿，直到吃下污秽

voluptuous water

而想象力却拼命

expressing with broken

追逐鹿群

穿过一枝黄花的花田

brain the truth about us—

在九月令人窒息的酷热中

her great

出于某种原因

ungainly hips and flopping breasts

它似乎要毁了我们

只有在孤立的碎片中

addressed to cheap

某些东西

jewelry

才被释放

and rich young men with fine eyes

没有人

去见证

as if the earth under our feet

或调整，没有人驾驶那辆汽车

were

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