一個人向命運抗議：

A person protests to fate:

「你致使我

"The things you have caused

最想要的東西

me most to want

最遙不可及。」

are those that furthest elude me."

命運點頭。

Fate nods.

命運有同情心。

Fate is sympathetic.

系上鞋帶，系上襯衫鈕扣，

To tie the shoes, button a shirt,

是一種凱旋，

are triumphs

僅僅對那些年幼者

for only the very young,

和年老者。

the very old.

而在這漫長的時間中：

During the long middle:

給一顆鉚釘變位

conjugating a rivet

精通探戈

mastering tango

訓練一隻貓不跳上桌子

training the cat to stay off the table

儲存起比此刻更長久的一瞬

preserving a single moment longer than this one

持續喚醒前一天所發生的

continuing to wake whatever has happened the day before

還有愛的書法在身體裏踐行。

and the penmanships love practices inside the body.