曹志平的诗

曹志平的诗
Cao Zhiping’s Poems
 
北塔等译
Tr. by Bei Ta
 
 
        曹志平，笔名逢二等。1968 年生，汉族，湖南郴州人，现在北京工作。1986
年开始文学创作，集诗歌、小说、散文、报告文学、评论等文本创作于一身。有
作品入选中学、大学语文教材。2009 年9 月受邀出席了欧洲中部匈牙利首都
布达佩斯召开的第29 届世界诗人大会。

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.
 
曹志平的诗
Cao Zhiping's Poems
 
1,看这几个戴着鞋套拿铁锹的
他们是工人吗
工人没有这么干活的
他们干净吗
他们只是穿得干净
是地上脏吗
不是
他们戴着鞋套
是想隔离什么吗
 
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
把房子便宜卖
信用卡乱刷
对讨厌的上司一顿痛骂
向老婆坦白所有的婚外情
向暗恋的女神表白
没想到的赶紧想
想到的赶紧做
不留遗憾过完十二月二十一
问题是
第二天太阳照常升起
这才是世界末日来了
 
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
没钱了
断药了
病人上吊了
值班医生出出进进
像菩萨
走廊上的视频
是唯一的天眼
把这个事情记录下
但天亮也许会被删掉
 
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号地铁
1号地铁
是北京的
经国贸
王府井建国门
到天安门站
想起伟人
再过公主坟
玉泉山五棵松
东单西单
就到万寿永安了
再往前
一个声音高叫着
八宝山到了
 
4.Metro Line 1
Metro Line 1
Belongs to Beijing
Passing Guomao
Wangfujing, Jianguomen
048
曹志平的诗
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.猫和狗
都依附一个家
有狗洞猫眼
守门护院
防小人偷
老鼠盗
大同小异
异曲同工
在乎人宠
猫多一手爬树
人说咦
狗学拿耗子
人说喔
猫扳倒一个甄
狗冲过去
猫不卑不亢走开
不和狗一般见识
狗也迅疾明白
像个绅士
 
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.