弗兰克·奥哈拉:黛女士死的那一天

欢喜陀 2008-07-01 15:23:17   来自: 欢喜陀 (武汉)

  The Day Lady Died
  
  It is 12:20 in New York a Friday
  three days after Bastille day, yes
  it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine
  because I will get off the 4:19 in Easthampton
  at 7:15 and then go straight to dinner
  and I don't know the people who will feed me
  
  I walk up the muggy street beginning to sun
  and have a hamburger and a malted and buy
  an ugly NEW WORLD WRITING to see what the poets
  in Ghana are doing these days
   I go on to the bank
  and Miss Stillwagon (first name Linda I once heard)
  doesn't even look up my balance for once in her life
  and in the GOLDEN GRIFFIN I get a little Verlaine
  for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do
  think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or
  Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Nègres
  of Genet, but I don't, I stick with Verlaine
  after practically going to sleep with quandariness
  
  and for Mike I just stroll into the PARK LANE
  Liquor Store and ask for a bottle of Strega and
  then I go back where I came from to 6th Avenue
  and the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatre and
  casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a carton
  of Picayunes, and a NEW YORK POST with her face on it
  
  and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of
  leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT
  while she whispered a song along the keyboard
  to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing
  
  黛女士死的那一天
  
  是12:20,在纽约,一个星期五
  巴斯底日后的第三天;对了,
  是1959年,我上街擦皮鞋
  因为我要乘4:19的车,7:15
  到车海浦吞,我径直去吃晚饭
  并不认识那些请客的人
  
  我沿着潮热的大街往前走,开始出太阳,
  吃了一个汉堡包和一杯牛奶鸡蛋糊
  买了一份印得糟糕的《新世界写作》
  看看加纳的诗人近来在干什么
  我走进银行
  静车女士(一次我听说叫林达)
  这次破天荒不查我的存款帐
  在金鹰狮我买了一小本维尔伦
  给柏赛,有着勃纳德的插图,虽然我想到
  哈西奥·李奇门·拉第摩的译本,或
  勃兰登·贝安的新剧,或珍耐的
  《凉台》或《黑人》,但是,不,在拿不定主意中我
  睡着了,在这之后认定选维尔伦
  
  麦克的礼物么,我走进公园街的
  酒店,要了一瓶斯推加酒,
  然后我退回到我所从来的第六街
  和齐格菲大戏院的烟草店
  随便地买了一条葛萝意丝和一条
  碧加茵丝,和一份《纽约邮报》,有她的脸
  
  在上面,我立即出了一身汗,并想到
  倚着第五夜总会的厕所门,
  当她低声唱一只歌,弹着琴
  对着马尔·瓦德伦和其他的人,我停止了呼吸。
  
  (《美国当代诗选》,郑敏编译。湖南人民出版社1987年9月初版。定价:3.60元。)
  




Dewode||伶

2008-07-07 13:43:23 Dewode||伶 (成都)

  是 billie holiday 么?



欢喜陀

2008-07-07 13:44:03 欢喜陀 (武汉)

  对,就是她




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