指纹

曾经常常抚摸你
可如今不再是自己
每当要擦掉果酱
才发现指纹早已杳无踪迹

整夜，我都在对指纹呼唤
但指纹毫不在意
最后一次看见它们
是在你的发丝间翻腾

我以为自己今早就走
所以倒空了你的抽屉
成千上万的指纹
掉落在地

你没弯腰去捡
也没算算丢了多少
你甚至不知道
谁是谁的

我必须道别时
你都没去那里找找
你拿着我的指纹远走高飞
所以我只能爱你的灵魂

我绝不假装理解
你的所想所要
但下次在挠背之前
我会查个究竟

我想知道我的指纹
在这一大堆中是否孤独
它们独一无二
应该为此感到自豪

但如今你却想嫁给我
步入婚姻殿堂
抛撒用指纹做的五彩撒花
你知道我不喜欢那样
我当然愿意结婚
但只要指纹还在
我不会和任何认识我的女孩
一同面对黎明

《天堂寄生者》诗选，1966年首次出版

译者：郭俊
选自《音乐陌生人》中信出版社出版

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I touched you once too often
Now I don’t know who I am
My fingerprints were missing
When I wiped away the jam
Yes I called my fingerprints all night
But they don’t seem to care
The last time that I saw them
They were leafing through your hair

Fingerprints, fingerprints
Where are you now my fingerprints?

Yeah I thought I’d leave this morning
So I emptied out your drawer
A hundred thousand fingerprints
They floated to the floor

You know you hardly stopped to pick them up
You don’t care what you lose
Ah you don’t even seem to know
Whose fingerprints are whose

Fingerprints, fingerprints
Where are you now my fingerprints?

And now you want to marry me
You want to take me down the aisle
You want to throw confetti fingerprints
You know that’s not my style

O sure I’d like to marry you
But I can’t face the dawn
With any girl who knew me
When my fingerprints were on

Fingerprints, fingerprints
Where are you now my fingerprints?

Fingerprints, oh fingerprints
Where are you now my fingerprints?