毒藥

by Liu Xia

梵高的耳朵傳遞給我

緊張如大地就要崩潰的消息

 

警惕那些天空如洗的夜晚

餐桌中央怒放的鮮花

書本裡有序的語句

電視台關於氣候的消息

卡夫卡眼睛的瘋狂

 

守護最後一縷爐火

如同天災後農人守護

地裡唯一一穗高梁

 

我是這個世界的毒藥

看見白雪覆蓋下

大地正在腐爛的屍體

屍體上蠕動的蛆

別想用純潔來欺騙我

 

不要掩藏死亡

不要人造的天堂

偽天使們熱烈的目光

不如一根枯黃的稻草

一隻香煙燃盡的輝煌

 

1/1997

 

Poison

by Liu Xia

Van Gogh’s ear sends me an urgent message

that the earth is about to collapse.

 

Beware of the white-washed night sky

the flowers in full bloom on the dining room table  

the orderly lines of sentences in a book

the weather forecast on TV

and Kafka’s crazy eyes.

 

Guard the last ray of fire

like farmers guarding the only sorghum

left in a field after a natural disaster.

 

I am the poison of this world.

I can see a rotting corpse, the earth,

covered in snow

and I can see wriggling maggots.

Do not try to fool me with purity.

 

Do not hide death.

Do not build an artificial paradise.

The warm look from the eyes of a fake angel

is worse than the glory of straw yellowing

or a cigarette burning out.

 

1/1997

translated from Chinese by Ming Di & Jennifer Stern
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