Zang Di

chinesisch

我喜爱蓝波的几个理由

他的名字里有蓝色的波浪,
奇异的爱恨交加,
但不伤人。浪漫起伏着,
噢,犹如一种光学现象。
至少,我喜欢这样的特例——
喜欢他们这样把他介绍过来。
他命定要出生在法国南部,
然后去巴黎,去布鲁塞尔,
去伦敦,去荒凉的非洲
寻找足够的沙子。
他们用水洗东西,而他
用成吨的沙子洗东西。
我理解这些,并喜爱
其中闪光的部分。
我不能确定,如果早生
一百年,我是否会认他作
诗歌上的兄弟。但我知道
我喜欢他,因为他说
每个人都是艺术家。
他使用的逻辑非常简单:
由于他是天才,他也在每个人身上
看到了天才。要么是潜在的,
要么是无名的。他的呼吁
简洁但是复杂:“什么?永恒。”
有趣的是,晚上睡觉时,
我偶尔会觉得他是在胡扯。
而早上醒来,沐浴在
晨光的清新中,我又意识到
他的确有先见之明。

2002.高雄

© Zang Di
Audioproduktion: Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, 2015

A FEW REASONS WHY I LOVE RIMBAUD

His name carries blue waves,
a strange love-hate
that doesn’t hurt. Slow waves that rise and fall—
like a spectroscopic phenomenon.
At least, I'm fond of this odd way
he was introduced to us.
Destined to be born in southern France,
then to go to Paris, to Brussels,
to London, to wild Africa
to find enough sand.
People wash things with water, but he
washed things with vast quantities of sand.
I understand all this, and love
the glittering part of it.          
I can’t be sure though, if I would take him
as a poetry brother had I been born
a hundred years earlier.  But I know
I like him, because he said
everyone was an artist.
His reasoning was very straightforward:
being a genius himself, he saw genius
in everyone, either potential,
or unknown.  His appeal,
simple but complex.  “Quoi? – L'Éternité.”
It's funny that when I sleep at night,
I occasionally think he was talking nonsense,
but when I wake up in the morning, bathed
in the freshness of early light, I realize
he was certainly foresighted.

2002. Kaohsiung