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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。)
| 2008-07-07 13:43:23 Dewode||伶
(成都) 是 billie holiday 么?
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| 2008-07-07 13:44:03 欢喜陀
(武汉) 对,就是她
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