LÜ De-an

chinesisch

街头音乐

他们只是让音乐               
在一边放着
他们把车停泊路旁
那响亮的黑色吉普

他们也围住音乐
踩着节拍
但多数时候是音乐
在独自响着

那条街己漂出了
街的意义之外
象被掏空的巢
飞离了树枝

音乐的通宵达旦的力量
支撑着那群幽暗的躯体----
他们聚合又离散
却始终在那条街上

音乐还支撑另一些
路边的流浪汉
他们恢复了行走
在没有睡眠的梦乡

© Lü De-an
Audioproduktion: DJS Art Foundation

Street Music

They park their black jeep on the curb
and leave the music on
to blare on its own
into the street.

They gather around it
to keep the beat
but mostly they drift away
and let the music run
on its own.

The street is drifting up
above the city
away from other streets
like an emptied nest
blown free from the branches of a tree.

All night long
the music holds the drifting bodies together—
their shadows gather and disperse
on and above.

The homeless on the roadside
join them, swaying their light bodies
in their empty dreams.

(1992. New York)

© Translated by Mindy Zhang and Neil Aitken