要是你知道，自己会是最后一个

What if you knew you'd be the last

触碰某人的人呢？

to touch someone?

比如，你在剧院门口

If you were taking tickets, for example,

检票，撕开票面，

at the theater, tearing them,

递回那些毛边的票根，

giving back the ragged stubs,

你也许会格外用心去触碰那只手掌，

you might take care to touch that palm,

让指尖轻轻拂过

brush your fingertips

生命线的褶痕。

along the life line's crease.

当一个男人拖着带轮的行李箱

When a man pulls his wheeled suitcase

在机场走得太慢，当

too slowly through the airport, when

我前面的车不打转向灯，

the car in front of me doesn't signal,

当药房里的店员

when the clerk at the pharmacy

连一句“谢谢”都不说，我并不会想起

won't say Thank you, I don't remember

他们终将死去。

they're going to die.

一个朋友告诉我，她曾陪着姨妈。

A friend told me she'd been with her aunt.

她们刚吃完午饭，那名服务生，

They'd just had lunch and the waiter,

一个有着李子般漆黑眼睛的年轻同性恋男子，

a young gay man with plum black eyes,

端上咖啡时开着玩笑；她们离开时，

joked as he served the coffee, kissed

他吻了吻她姨妈扑着粉的脸颊。

her aunt's powdered cheek when they left.

然后她们走了半个街区，她的姨妈

Then they walked a half a block and her aunt

倒在人行道上，死了。

dropped dead on the sidewalk.

龙的涎沫

How close does the dragon's spume

究竟要逼近到什么程度？天界的裂缝

have to come? How wide does the crack

究竟要裂开多宽？

in heaven have to split?

如果我们能够看见人们真正的样子，

What would people look like

他们会是什么模样？

if we could see them as they are,

浸透了蜜，被蜇伤、肿胀，

soaked in honey, stung and swollen,

莽撞地活着，被时间钉住？

reckless, pinned against time?