Even a Phantom Gets Thirst
Suddenly the phantom gets thirsty
He moves to the top of
the plaza of the city
and looks down
He wonders if he could jump
to the core of the ocean below
where sea plants live intimately
without having to breathe
But he can’t
the unbearable lightness of being
is there to stop him from dropping
from touching you
when the wind blows hard
in a season so heartbroken
with all the chirps of bird
crying in one direction
连一个幽灵也会饥渴
幽灵突然觉得饥渴
他挪到城市
广场的上空
俯瞰众生
他想知道自己能不能
跳进海洋的核心
海里的植物不用呼吸
亲密地生活在一起
但他却不能
因为不可承受的生命之轻
阻止他坠落
阻止他触摸你
此时狂风大作
在一个心碎的季节里
所有的鸟儿
都朝着同一个方向
哭泣
Tonight
Tonight I am sleeping on
a wooden bed at a foreign town
I see myself lie on one side
as people cross their hands to pray
I cross my feet and
put one hand behind my holy hair
and the other hand my secular ear
the same posture of the mummy
at a museum on an island
the other day I saw
I know my days are numbered
tonight the hourglass comes to an end
I hear people laugh and cry
back from the party
car engines growl and then die
like suddenly I feel the whole sea
rise to stand on a needle point
and you know how
unbearable life can be
Tonight I wonder what could happen to
us, the whole race in the evolution process
but not me, the insignificant ant
that will be eaten away by other insects
but I still worry about what could become
the remnants of the dust
For how could I disappear
before I grow into a true lover
so pretentious and sweet-hearted
that I swear I will love
glory or poverty or whatever
that I will build my own establishment
and be an expatriate
and so bloody and blind
that I will support a revolution or a dictator
or lead a coup d’etat
on a remote part of the planet
that finally I am tried by my people
as a traitor
and spend the rest days
as I am imprisoned
and no paper and
water is very precious
with which I write on the wall with my finger
and I sleep on this wooden bed
and I say this life is beyond description
like suddenly the whole sea
rises to stand on a needle point
and you know how unbearable
it can be
今夜/今夜我睡在/异乡小镇的一张木床上/看到自己侧身躺着/像祷告的人们合上双手/我合上了双脚/一只手放在神圣的发际/另一只搁在世俗的耳根/这姿势/和我某天在一个小岛博物馆里/看到的木乃伊一样/我的日子屈指可数/今夜,沙漏即将流尽/我听到人们从晚会归来后/哭哭笑笑/汽车引擎咆哮又恢复死寂/突然间我感到/整个大海/立在了一枚针尖上/于是你知道/生命是多么/不堪忍受/今夜我不知道什么会降临在我们头上/我们, 这进化过程中的整个种族/而不只是我自己——/这只会被其他昆虫啮咬的/微不足道的蚂蚁/但我还是忧虑/化为尘埃之后又会怎样/可是我怎么能够消失呢/在还没有成为一个/真正的爱人之前/成为虚妄又亲密的爱人之前/发誓自己将热爱/光荣，贫穷，或其他的什么/建立自己的基业/亡命天涯/如此血腥又如此盲目地/支持一场革或独裁者//或者在这星球遥远的一隅/发动一场政变/最后被自己的人民/当作叛徒审判/然后在监狱里/度尽我的残年/没有纸/水非常宝贵/我用手指蘸着/在墙上写下这些文字/我睡在这张木床上/ 我说人生无法用言语形容/ 就仿佛突然间我感到/整个大海/立在了一枚针尖上/于是你知道/生命是多么/不堪忍受
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