零号英雄（晚期资本主义衰变混音版）马永波 译
Zero The Hero (Late Capitalist Decay Remix)Alex S. Johnson
PoemWiki致约翰·雪莉
For John Shirley
认清自己是二流货色，生活会变得容易
金盘盛装的人生套餐已经备好
我们甚至无需与你交谈
你的面容平常，与生俱来
也将永远如此，与生同去
你的头颅被牢牢钉在你的电视频道上
但控制面板上是他人的手指——
黑色安息日乐队，《零号英雄》
词曲作者：特伦斯·迈克尔·巴特勒、托尼·艾欧米、伊恩·吉兰、
比尔·沃德、安东尼·艾欧米、威廉·T·沃德
Accept the fact that you're second-rate, life is easy for ya
It's all served up on a gold plated plate
And we don't even have to talk to you
Your face is normal, that's the way you're bred
And that's the way you're going to stay
Your head is firmly nailed to your TV channel
But someone else's finger's on the control panel-Black Sabbath, "Zero the Hero"
Songwriter(s): Terence Michael Butler, Tony Iommi, Ian Gillan, Bill Ward, Anthony Iommi, William T. Ward
Benumbed, a hipster in black
with designer jeans and a lipstick smile
Caressing the silver screen with prurient fingers of junk
A psychopomp descends like crashing chords of the Death Jazz
With a scatter of black and iridescent feathers
Towards the rapidly putrescent gentleman
Toppling foreword with a wig of blood
He's borne aloft on cryptic rays from the tomb enveloping form
He's massacred by norms, a botfarm host
He's nearly a ghost, a spectral stutter on your TV
As you hold the remote in a lazy paw
Face grossed up with grease, jamming a fat sandwich in your hideous beak
As you wait for the show to begin
As pinpoint fires light up the sky
As the teeming digital tide slams and shatters repeatedly
Watching your own face in pixels as it
Floods through the screen and you
Emit a gentleman's scream
The fires persist on the hillside, it's
Dark now and the foxes have gone to ground
You light another cigarette and
Reach for her absent hand
Realize too late what you've lost
A thing of ones and zeros
Has left the living theater.