SOMEONE史春波, 乔治·奥康奈尔 译

某個人树才


Someone, maybe you, maybe him, maybe me.
某個人?可以是你,是我,是他。
Someone hides behind a title.
某個人躲在某個名字下。
Someone mutters to the wind.
某個人喃喃低語,對風說話。
Someone doesn’t know his name.
某個人不知道自己叫什麼。

Someone’s dead, his face become a mask.
某個人死了!臉過渡為面具。
Some masks are kept from women.
有幾種面具不能讓婦女看見。
In this human kitchen, the knife of time
但在人類的廚房裏,時間的
craves its fatal stone.
菜刀,需要死亡這塊磨刀石。

Someone’s met once, spoken to,
某個人,見過面的,說過話的,
dead or not yet born.
死了的,還未出生的……
Someone walks toward other faces.
某個人正迎面走來,
Someone brushes past.
某個人已擦肩而過。

It’s said someone’s born innocent.
據說某個人生來清白,
It’s said Plato’s words
據說柏拉圖經曆了蘇格拉底之死,
relive the death of Socrates.
通過他的嘴,死亡唾沫四濺,
His mouth spews death’s spittle,
通過他的筆,死者重返街道。
he writes, and a dead man walks the street.


某個人,生於XXX,
Someone born one year
死於XXX。
dies another. Pinched
生死之間,夾著一小段生活。
between birth and death, this interlude’s
而生活,是負債的過程。
a process of arrears.


死亡是中斷。某個人繼續……
Death takes a breather. Someone presses on.


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