躺下，你就是水平的。

Lie down, you are horizontal.

站起來，你就不是。

Stand up, you are not.

我要求我的命運成為人。

I wanted my fate to be human.

好比香水

Like a perfume

不擇路而行，

that does not choose the direction it travels,

不分曲直，無法阻擋也不能保存。

that cannot be straight or crooked, kept out or kept.

是，否，或

Yes, No, Or

——一天，一輩子，從三者間滑過，

—a day, a life, slips through them,

蛻掉第三層皮，

taking off the third skin,

蛻掉第四層。

taking off the fourth.

鞋子的邏輯終究沒那麼複雜，

The logic of shoes becomes at last simple,

一個動物的問題，磨損。

an animal question, scuffing.

舊鞋子，老路——

Old shoes, old roads—

新的疑問不斷湧至。

the questions keep being new ones.

正如兩個負數乘以雨水

Like two negative numbers multiplied by rain

得到橘子和橄欖。

into oranges and olives.