作者简介

袁绍珊

　　诗人、专栏作家，生于澳门，北京大学中文系及艺术系学士、多伦多大学东亚系及亚太研究项目硕士。曾获「澳门文学奖」等奖项，作品散见于两岸四地刊物。个人诗集包括《太平盛世的形上流亡》（香港，2008）、《Wonderland》（台北，2011）、《这里 / Here》（英译诗选集）（澳门，2011）。

　　Poet and writer, Un Sio San was born in Macau in 1985 and graduated from Peking University and the University of Toronto. She has won several writing prizes, including the Macao Literature Prize. Her works can be found in literary journals published in Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China, and a bilingual edition of her work titled Here was published in 2011 by the Association of Stories in Macau.
 

给二十一世纪的无情诗

这将是一个大刀阔斧的时代
需要纸巾来擦拭，所以我写下一首诗

在理性的下午
我到处叩门，心中的荒原高价待沽

连蝙蝠都佯装流星
在新潮中，爱是残旧的盆景

在嗜血的二十一世纪
我只想学好普通话，做一个普通人

Loveless Poem for the Twenty-First Century

this will be an age of large knives and broad axes
we’ll need some paper to wipe them clean, so I wrote a poem

on a rational afternoon
I knocked on every door, trying to sell high on the waste land in my heart

bats are dressed up as meteors
love these days is like a decrepit bonsai

in the twenty-first century with its taste for blood
I just want to learn the common language, be a common person

(Translated by Brian Skerratt)