還給我
 
 
 還給我
 請還給我那扇沒有裝過鎖的門
 哪怕沒有房間也請還給我
 還給我
 請還給我早上叫醒我的那只雄雞
 哪怕被你吃掉了也請把骨頭還給我
 請還給我半山坡上的那曲牧歌
 哪怕已經被你錄在了磁帶上
 也請把笛子還給我
 還給我
 請還給我愛的空間
 哪怕已經被你污染了
 也請把環保的權利還給我
 請還給我我與我兄弟姐妹的關係
 哪怕只有半年也請還給我
 請還給我整個地球
 哪怕已經被你分割成
 一千個國家
     一億個村莊
         也請你還給我
 
 
 GIVE IT BACK TO ME
 
 
 Give it back to me
 Please give me back the door without lock
 Even if there is no longer a room, please give it back to me
 Give it back to me
 Please give me back the rooster that awakens me in the morning
 Even if you have finished eating it, give me the bones back please
 Please give me back the shepherd’s song halfway up the hill
 Even if you have recorded it on tape
 Give me back the flute please
 Give it back to me
 Please give me back the space of love
 Even if you have polluted it
 Please give me back the right of environmental protection
 Give me back the relationship with my brothers and sisters
 Even if it lasts no more than half a year, give it back, please
 Give me back the whole of the globe
 Even if it has been divided into
 Thousands of nations
    Hundred thousands of villages
        Please give it back to me
 
 (1986)

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 精致的腐化
 
 
 請運用你的想象
 想象每個時代都有成千上萬個工匠
 前赴後地
 打磨著這塊人間最大的玉石
 所以它不可能不光滑
 讓你的手感四通八達
 它不可能不堅硬
 你撞上去必定會頭破血流
 它不可能不反光
 你能看見整個世界因為它的弧度
 而變形
 
 (2006)
 
 THE REFINEMENT OF CORRUPTION
 
 
 Please use your imagination
 Imagine thousands of craftsmen, down through the ages
 To make a multigenerational effort
 To polish the world’s biggest piece of jade
 How could it be anything but smooth
 So wide-open and inviting to the touch
 How could it be anything but hard
 But against it and get a bloody forehead
 How could its surface fail to reflect light
 Along its contours you see the whole world
 Twisted out of shape

 (Tr. by Denis Mair)