科吉托先生看报纸
头版报道
120名士兵被杀
战争漫长
你要习惯
紧邻这篇新闻
是一件引人入胜的罪行
附着杀手的照片
科吉托先生的目光
冷漠地滑过
那些士兵的牺牲
带着强烈的兴趣
投向日常的惨剧
一个三十岁的农场工
身陷躁狂的抑郁
杀死自己的妻子
和两个年幼的孩子
我们被告知他们
被杀的确切方式
尸体的位置
还有其他细节
在地图上尝试寻找
120个阵亡者毫无意义
距离太遥远了
像一片密林遮掩他们
他们无法激起想象
他们人数太多
末尾上数字的零
使他们变得抽象
进一步深思的主题:
怜悯的算术
Mr. Cogito Reads the Newspaper
The front page reports
120 soldiers were killed
the war was long
you get used to it
right next to this news
of a spectacular crime
with the killer's photo
Mr Cogito's gaze
moves with indifference
over the soldiers’hecatomb
to plunge with great relish
into the quotidian macabre
a thirty-year-old farmworker
in a state of manic depression
murdered his own wife
and two small children
we are told the exact
way they were killed
the position of bodies
and the other details
it's no use trying to find
120 lost men on a map
a distance too remote
hides them like a jungle
they don’t speak to the imagination
there are too many of them
the numeral zero on the end
turns them into an abstraction
a theme for further reflection:
the arithmetic of compassion
作者 / 兹别格涅夫·赫伯特
朗读 / 安好
制作 / 彭艳戎
出品 / 读首诗再睡觉(dushoushizaishuijiao)