雜談

American Mouth-Flightless Bird(無法飛行的鳥)

I was a quick wet boy

我曾是個敏捷、濕透的男孩

Diving too deep for coins

為了撿拾硬幣潛入深處

All of your street light eyes

你們像街燈般的雙眼

Wide on my plastic toys

注視著我的塑膠玩具

Then when the cops closed the fair

然後當警察關閉了嘉年華

I cut my long baby hair

我剪去了我的稚嫩長髮

Stole me a dog-eared map

偷了一份老舊捲曲的地圖

And called for you everywhere

並到處呼喚著你

Have I found you? Flightless bird

我是否找到了你？不能飛翔的鳥

Jealous, weeping

妒忌著、哭泣著

Or lost you? American mouth

還是我失去了你?美國人的聲音

Big pill looming

巨大的藥丸，正步步逼近

Now I'm a fat house cat

現在我是隻肥胖的家貓

Nursing my sore blunt tongue

照顧著我痠痛又遲鈍的舌頭

Watching the warm poison rats

盯著那些帶毒的老鼠

Curl through the wide fence cracks

蜷縮著鑽進籬笆縫隙

Pissing on magazine photos

對雜誌上的照片撒尿

Those fishing lures

那些垂釣魚餌

Thrown in the cold and clean

被丟在冰冷純淨

Blood of Christ mountain stream

如基督之血般的山間溪流裡
 

Have I found you? Flightless bird

我是否找到了你？不能飛翔的鳥

Grounded, bleeding

被囚禁著、淌著血

Or lost you? American mouth

還是我失去了你?美國人的聲音

Big pill, stuck going down

巨大的藥丸，哽在喉嚨緩慢下嚥