《致簡》 by 布考斯基

致簡（For Jane）

查爾斯·布考斯基

 

225天埋在草下

你知道的比我更多。

他們早就抽幹了你的血，

你是籃子裏一根幹枝。

事情就是這麽運作的嗎？

在這個房間裏

愛的時光

仍投下陰影。

 

當你離開

你幾乎帶走了

一切。

夜裏我跪下

麵對那些不肯放過

我的老虎。

 

你的樣子

再也不會重現。

老虎們已經找上我

而我無所謂。

（林木譯）

 

For Jane

By Charles Bukowski

 

225 days under grass

and you know more than I.

they have long taken your blood,

you are a dry stick in a basket.

is this how it works?

in this room

the hours of love

still make shadows.

 

when you left

you took almost

everything.

I kneel in the nights

before tigers

that will not let me be.

 

what you were

will not happen again.

the tigers have found me

and I do not care.