Empty Town

carry loneliness on your shoulder

from the navel upward void

collapse

the physiological necessity

of drinking a glass of water -

this the total inundation

of your torso’s empty chamber

you’re like a pier

wrapped in sounds

of arrival and departure

the people on TV

violating one another

while you remain just intact

and a little bored

the debauchees don’t stop here

retrocede under bodily impulse

fewer and fewer people in the city

gradually replaced

by an expanse of water

空城

把孤独扛在肩上

肚脐以上的部位都视为无效

比如去喝一杯水

应该打破它的实际意义

不是人体需求

而是要把空荡的房间

全部淹没

来去的声音都把

你当作码头一样环绕

接着是电视机里的人像

正在施行暴力

而你却毫发无伤

这未免太过无趣

过节的人也都与你形同陌路

不在此地停留的意义

或许是身体的直接命令

城里的人越来越少

逐渐要被一片汪洋取代

Translated by Dave Haysom, A K Blakemore