曹志平的詩
Cao Zhiping’s Poems
 
北塔等譯
Tr. by Bei Ta
 
 
        曹志平，筆名逢二等。1968 年生，漢族，湖南郴州人，現(xiàn)在北京工作。1986
年開始文學(xué)創(chuàng)作，集詩歌、小說、散文、報告文學(xué)、評論等文本創(chuàng)作于一身。有
作品入選中學(xué)、大學(xué)語文教材。2009 年9 月受邀出席了歐洲中部匈牙利首都
布達(dá)佩斯召開的第29 屆世界詩人大會。

Cao Zhiping was born in Hunan Province in 1968. His penname is Feng Er.
He began to write literary pieces in 1986. Some of his works have been chosen as
teaching materials by high schools and even colleges in Chinese Mainland. He was
invited to attend the 29th World Congress of Poets held in Budapest, Hungary in
2009.
 
曹志平的詩
Cao Zhiping's Poems
 
1,看這幾個戴著鞋套拿鐵鍬的
他們是工人嗎
工人沒有這么干活的
他們干凈嗎
他們只是穿得干凈
是地上臟嗎
不是
他們戴著鞋套
是想隔離什么嗎
 
1, Look at ThoseWho AreWearing Shoe Covers and
Holding Shovels
Are they laborers
Laborers do not work like this
Are they clean
Only with clean clothes
Is the ground dirty
No
Do they want to be isolated from anything
By wearing shoe covers
 
2,世界末日
把房子便宜賣
信用卡亂刷
對討厭的上司一頓痛罵
向老婆坦白所有的婚外情
向暗戀的女神表白
沒想到的趕緊想
想到的趕緊做
不留遺憾過完十二月二十一
問題是
第二天太陽照常升起
這才是世界末日來了
 
2.The Doom’s Day
Selling the house with a lower price
Abusing the credit card
Scolding the bothersome boss severely
Confessing all extramarital affairs to wife
Expressing hidden love to goddess
Thinking over what has not been thought of
Doing what has not been dealt with
Passing Dec 21 without regret
The problem is
On the next day? the sun rises as usual
That is really the doom’s day
 
3.天眼
沒錢了
斷藥了
病人上吊了
值班醫(yī)生出出進(jìn)進(jìn)
像菩薩
走廊上的視頻
是唯一的天眼
把這個事情記錄下
但天亮也許會被刪掉
 
3.Skyeye
Money used
Medicine stopped
The patient has hanged himself
Doctors on duty come and go
Like Bodhisattvas
The camera hung at the corridor
Is the only skyeye
Recording this event
Which might be erased at daybreak
 
4. 1號地鐵
1號地鐵
是北京的
經(jīng)國貿(mào)
王府井建國門
到天安門站
想起偉人
再過公主墳
玉泉山五棵松
東單西單
就到萬壽永安了
再往前
一個聲音高叫著
八寶山到了
 
4.Metro Line 1
Metro Line 1
Belongs to Beijing
Passing Guomao
Wangfujing, Jianguomen
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曹志平的詩
Cao Zhiping's Poems
At Tian’anmen Square
I think of a great man
Passing Gongzhufen①
Yuquanshan, Wukesong
Dongdan and Xidan
I arrived at Wanshou② and Yong’an③
A loud voice?
Shouting
Babaoshan④ has arrived
 
5.貓和狗
都依附一個家
有狗洞貓眼
守門護(hù)院
防小人偷
老鼠盜
大同小異
異曲同工
在乎人寵
貓多一手爬樹
人說咦
狗學(xué)拿耗子
人說喔
貓扳倒一個甄
狗沖過去
貓不卑不亢走開
不和狗一般見識
狗也迅疾明白
像個紳士
 
5.Dog and Cat
Both of them depending on a family
Doghole and cat’s eye
Defending gate and court
Preventing villian and mouse
From stealing
largely identical but with minor differences
different in approach but equally satisfactory in result
They mind favours conferred by people
Cat has one more skill---climbing tree
People would say“gee”
Dog learns to catch mouse
People would say“oh”
Cat pulling down a ceramic reel
Dog dashing over
Cat walking away, neither humble nor pushy
Thinking itself not at the same level as dog
Dog understood soon
Like a gentleman
 
① A station’s name indicating“the Princess’Grave’.
② A station’s name indicating“a long long life”.
③ A station’s name indicating“Eternal Peace”.
④ Name of a station, near which there is the biggest and most important
cemetery.