Sing For The Moment
牡蛎男孩的忧郁之死
old_kid 发表于 2007-07-19 20:49:41
牡蛎男孩的忧郁之死
１．Stick Boy and Match Girl in Love
Stick Boy liked Match Girl,
He liked her a lot.
He liked her cute figure,
he thought she was hot.
But could a flame ever burn
for a match and a stick?
It did quite literally;
he burned up quick.
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２．Voodoo Girl
Her skin is white cloth,
and she's all sewn apart
and she has many colored pins
sticking out of her heart.
She has many different zombies
who are deeply in her trance.
She even has a zombie
who was originally from France.
But she knows she has a curse on her,
a curse she cannot win.
For if someone gets
too close to her,
the pins stick farther in.
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３．Robot Boy
Mr. an Mrs. Smith had a wonderful life.
They were a normal, happy husband and wife.
One day they got news that made Mr. Smith glad.
Mrs. Smith would would be a mom
which would make him the dad!
But something was wrong with their bundle of joy.
It wasn't human at all,
it was a robot boy!
He wasn't warm and cuddly
and he didn't have skin.
Instead there was a cold, thin layer of tin.
There were wires and tubes sticking out of his head.
He just lay there and stared,
not living or dead.
The only time he seemed alive at all
was with a long extension cord
plugged into the wall.
Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor,
"What have you done to my boy?"
He's not flesh and blood,
he's aluminum alloy!"
The doctor said gently,
"What I'm going to saywill sound pretty wild."
But you're not the father
of this strange looking child.
You see, there still is some question
about the child's gender,
but we think that its father
is a microwave blender."
The Smith's lives were now filled
with misery and strife.
Mrs. Smith hated her husband,
and he hated his wife.
He never forgave her unholy alliance:
a sexual encounter
with a kitchen appliance.
And Robot Boy
grew to be a young man.
Though he was often mistaken
for a garbage can.
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４．Staring Girl
I once knew a girl
who would just stand there and stare.
At anyone or anything,
she seemed not to care
She'd stare at the ground,
She'd stare at the sky.
She'd stare at you for hours,
and you'd never know why.
But after winning the local staring contest,
she finally gave her eyes
a well-deserved rest.
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５．The Boy with Nails in his Eyes
The Boy with Nails in his Eyes
put up his aluminium tree.
It looked pretty strange
because he couldn't really see.
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６．The Girl with Many Eyes
One day in the park
I had quite a surprise.
I met a girl
who had many eyes.
She was really quite pretty
(and also quite shocking!)
and I noticed she had a mouth,
so we ended up talking.
We talked about flowers,
and her poetry classes,
and the problems she'd have
if she ever wore glasses.
It's great to know a girl
who has so many eyes,
but you really get wet
when she breaks down and cries.
７．Stain Boy
Of all the super heroes,
the strangest one by far,doesn't have a special power,
并不具有特殊的力量，
or drive a fancy car.
或是奇怪的汽车．
next to Superman and batman, I guess he must seem tame.
比起超人和蝙蝠侠，我想他是软弱的．
But to me he is quite special,
但对我来说他十分特别，
and Stain Boy is his name.
他的名字是脏污男孩．
He can't fly around tall buildings,
他不会绕着大楼飞行，
or outrun a speeding train,
也不能从高速的火车中逃脱，
the only talent he seems to have
is to leave a nasty stain.
他拥有的唯一的能力
就是摆脱他那另人讨厌的脏污．
Sometimes I know it bothers him,
我知道有些事情另他烦恼，
that he can't run or swim or fly,
比如他不会奔跑，游泳和飞翔，
and because of this one ability,
而且因着他的能力，
his dry cleaning bill is sky-high.
他的干洗帐单高得惊人．
８．The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
牡蛎男孩的忧伤之死
He proposed in the dunes,
他在沙滩求婚，
they were wed by the sea,
在海边结婚。
Their nine-day-long honeymoon
was on the isle of Capri.
在卡布里岛，
享受九天的蜜月。
For their supper they had one specatular dish-
a simmering stew of mollusks and fish.
And while he savored the broth,
her bride's heart made a wish.
晚餐，他们享用了一道非常特别的菜——
贝类和鱼一起炖煮的热腾腾浓汤。
当他品尝汤汁的时候，
新娘在心中许下愿望。
心愿实现了——她生了一个宝宝，
但这个小家伙是人类吗？
嗯！
也许吧。
Ten fingers, ten toes,he had plumbing and sight.
He could hear, he could feel,but normal?
Not quite.This unnatural birth,
this canker, this blight,
was the start and the end and the sum of their plight.
他有十只手指、十只脚趾，
也有消化管和眼睛。
他听得见，他有感觉。
但是他正常吗？
也不是！
这个非自然得诞生、这个伤痛、这个挫折，
是他们痛苦的开始、结束，以及所有的一切。
She railed at the doctor:
"He cannot be mine.He smells of the ocean,
of seaweed and brine."
她责怪医生：
“他不是我生的！
他闻起来有海水、海草，那种咸咸的味道。”
"You should count yourself lucky,
for only last week,
I treated a girl with three ears and a beak.
That your son is half oysteryou cannot blame me....
have you ever considered,
by chance,a small home by the sea?"
“你应该觉得自己幸运！就在上个礼拜，
我还帮一个有三只耳朵、一张鸟嘴的女孩看病。
你的儿子是半个牡蛎，
你可不能怪我。
……你可曾想过，
搬到海边的小屋？”
Not knowing what to name him,
they just called him Sam,or sometimes,
"that thing that looks like a clam
"Everyone wondered,
but no one could tell,
When would young Oyster Boy come out of his shell?
不知道该给他取什么名字，
他们随口叫他山姆，
偶尔，也称他
“那个看起来像蛤仔的东西”。
每个人都在想，
小牡蛎什么时候会从壳里爬出来？
但没有人知道答案。
When the Thompson quadruplets espied him one day,
they called him a bivalve and ran quickly away.
One spring afternoon,
Sam was left in the rain.At the southwestern corner of Seaview and Main,
he watched the rain water as it swirleddown the drain.
有一天，汤普森家的四胞胎看见他，
“双壳贝！”喊完后一溜烟的跑走了。
某一个春天的午后，
山姆在雨中离开家，
独自站里在海边西南侧一隅，
望着雨水卷起旋涡
流入脚下的水沟。
His mom on the freewayin the breakdown lanewas pouding the dashboard-she couldn't containthe ever-rising grief,frustration,and pain.
山姆的妈妈在
瘫痪的高速高速公路上，
猛敲着仪表板。
她再也无法承受，
这高涨的悲哀、
无边的沮丧
和痛苦。
Really, sweetheart," she said
"I don't mean to make fun,
but something smells fishyand I think it's our son.I don't like to say this,
but it must be said,
you're blaming our son for your problems in bed."
她说道：“真的！甜心，
我不是在开玩笑，
我的确闻到鱼腥味，
我想那是我们的儿子。
有件事我不想提起，但却说不可，
你把自己在床上的问题，归罪给我们的儿子。”
He tried salves,
he tried ointmentsthat turned everything red.
He tried potions and lotionsand tincture of lead.
He ached and he itched and he twitched and he bled.
他尝试涂抹各种药膏、油膏，
只换来全身的红肿。
他试过多种口服剂、酒精，
甚至是含铅的毒酒，
他即痒又痛、全身抽搐，并且开始流血。
The doctor diagnosed,"I can't quite be sure,
but the cause of the problem may also be the cure.
They say oysters improve your sexual powers.
Perhaps eating your sonwould help you do it for hours!"
医生提出诊断，
“我还不能确定，
但造成问题的起因，可能也是治疗的良方。
大家都说牡蛎可以增加性能力，
或者把你的儿子吃下去，
会帮助你持续好几个小时呢！”
He came on tiptoe,he came on the sly,sweat on his forehead,
and on his lips-a lie.
"Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry,
but do you dream of Heaven?
Have you ever wanted to die?
他踮着脚尖，
偷偷地走进房内，
前额冒出汗珠，嘴唇——
吐出骗人的谎言：
“儿子呀！你快乐吗？我不是有意刺探，
但你可曾梦见天堂？
你曾渴望死亡吗？”
Sam blinked his eye twice.
but made no reply.
Dad fingered his knife and loosened his tie.
山姆眨了两次眼睛，
口中却没有回答，
爸爸拿起刀子，解开领带。
As he picked up his son,
Sam dripped on his coat.With the shell to his lips,
Sam slipped down his throat.
他举起他的儿子
山姆滴答的落在他的外套上，
当他把壳放到嘴边，
山姆也就滑进他的喉咙。
They burried him quickly in the sand by the sea-sighed a prayer,
wept a tear-and they were back home by three.
A cross of greay driftwood marked Oyster Boy's grave.
Words writ in the sandpromised Jesus would save.
他们立刻把山姆埋进海边的沙堆里。
——简单的一声祈祷，流完一行眼泪——
三点时回到家里。
灰色的浮木十字架上写着“牡蛎男孩之墓”。
沙上的墓志铭写着：
“神呀，请你救救他吧！”
But his memory was lost with one high-tide wave.
但是他的记忆随着一个大浪消失了。
回家后，夫妻俩安稳的躺在床上，
他亲了亲太太说：
“我们来试试吧！”
她喃喃的说：“这次我想要个女孩。
９．Stain Boy's special Christmas
脏污男孩的特别圣诞节
For Christmas, Stain Boy got a new uniform.
圣诞节，脏污男孩得到了一件新衣服．
It was clean and well pressed,
它十分干净，压制得很好，
comfy and warm.
又舒服又暖和．
But in few short minutes,
但只是几分钟，
(no longer than ten)
（不到十分钟）
those wet, greasy stains
那些湿而油腻的脏污
started forming again.
又来了．
10.The girl who turned into a bed
变成床的女孩
It happened that day
she picked up a strange pussy willow.
那一天她拾起一支奇怪的褪色柳，
Her head swelled up white
and a soft as a pillow.
她的头胀成了白色柔软的枕头．
Her skin, which had turned
all flaky and rotten,
她的皮肤，变得糙而薄，
was now replaced
with 100% cotton.
现在成了100%纯棉.
Through her organs and torso
she sprouted like wings,
经由的器官和躯干
她翅膀一样迅速变化,
a beautiful set
of matress and springs.
成了一张漂亮的床.
It was so terribly strange
这件怪异的事情
that I started to weep.
使我痛苦流涕.
But at least after that
但是至少
I had a nice place to sleep
以后我有一个不错的地方睡觉了.
11.Roy, The Toxic Boy
罗伊,毒男孩
To those who knew him
写给那些认识他的人
-his friends-
-他的朋友们-
we called him Roy.
我们叫他罗伊.
To others he was known
as that horrible Toxic Boy.
对别人来说他是恐怖的毒男孩.
He loved ammonia and asbestos,
他喜欢氨水和石棉,
and lots of cigarette smoke.
还有香烟的烟雾.
What he breathed in for air
他所呼吸的"空气"
would make other people choke!
会另其他人窒息!
His very favorite toy
他最喜欢的玩具
was a can of aerosol spray;
是一个喷雾剂罐子
he'd sit quietly and shake it,
他会安静的坐着摇晃它,
and spray it all the day.
然后喷雾一整天.
He'd stand inside the garage
in the early-morning frost,
他会在严寒的清晨站在汽车间里,
waiting for the car to start
and fill him with exhaust.
等着汽车启动排出的气充满他的身体.
The one and only time
I ever saw Toxic Boy cry
我唯一一次看到毒男孩流泪
was when some sodium chloride
got into his eye.
是当一些氯化钠进了他的眼睛.
One day for fresh air
在一个空气新鲜的日子
they put him in the garden.
他们把他放到了花园里.
His face went deathly pale
他的脸变得死一样苍白
and his body began to harden.
他的身体开始边得僵硬.
The final gasp of his short life
他生命中最后一口气
was sickly with despair.
病恹恹,带着绝望.
Whoever thought that you could die
from breathing outdoor air?
有任何人认为呼吸户外空气会里你死去吗?
As Roy's soul left his body
在罗伊的灵魂离开身体的时候
we all said a silent prayer.
我们都默默祈祷.
It drifted up to heaven
它升上天空
and left a hole in the ozone layer.
把臭氧层弄了一个洞.
12.James
詹姆士
Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware that
he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier that year
圣诞老人不明智地把一只玩具熊送给了詹姆士,
他不知道詹姆士在这一年的早些时候被一只灰熊打伤了.
13.Stick Boy's Festive Season
木棍男孩的圣诞节
Stick Boy noticed that his Christmas tree looked healthier
than he did.
木棍男孩注意到他的圣诞树看起来比他要健康．
14.Brie Boy
奶酪男孩
Brie Boy had a dream he had only had twice,
奶酪男孩有一个他只做过两次的梦：
that his full, round head was only a slice.
他那圆滚滚的头变得只是一小片．
The other children never let Brie Boy play ...
其他孩子永远不带奶酪男孩玩．．．
... but at least he went well with a nice Chardonnay.
．．．但至少他与一瓶夏敦埃酒很配．
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