Plath: Amnesiac

Sylvia Plath Collected Poems
No. 189

　　　Amnesiac

No use, no use, now, begging Recognize!
There is nothing to do with such a beautiful blank but smooth it.
Name, house, car keys,

The little toy wife---
Erased, sigh, sigh.
Four babies and a cocker!

Nurses the size of worms and a minute doctor
Tuck him in.
Old happenings

Peel from his skin.
Down the drain with all of it!
Hugging his pillow

Like the red-headed sister he never dared to touch,
He dreams of a new one---
Barren, the lot are barren!

And of another color.
How they'll travel, travel, travel, scenery
Sparking off their brother-sister rears

A comet tail!
And money the sperm fluid of it all.
One nurse brings in

A green drink, one a blue.
They rise on either side of him like stars.
The two drinks flame and foam.

O sister, mother, wife,
Sweet Lethe is my life.
I am never, never, never coming home!
　　　　　　　　　21 October 1962

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遗忘症患

没用，没用，现在，乞求“认出来！”
对如此美丽的空白，除了抹顺它，别无它法。
名字、房子、车钥匙，

那小巧的玩具老婆——
抹掉了，叹息，叹息。
四个婴孩和一只长耳猎犬！

蠕虫大小的护士和一名细微的医生
把他塞进褶缝。
陈旧的事

从他皮肤上剥落。
沿着排水管一泻无余！
他抱着枕头

就像那是他从不敢碰的红头姐姐，
他梦到了一个新人——
不育，整个一帮都不育！

而且是另一种颜色。
看她们那样穿行、穿行、穿行，风景
火花在他们的姐弟屁股后闪放

一条彗星尾巴！
金钱精液流兑换了一切。
一名护士带来

一份绿色的饮料，一份蓝色。
它们在他两边如星星升起。
两份饮料冒热焰，冒泡沫。

哦，姐姐，母亲，爱妻，
甜美的忘川是我的生活。
我永远、永远、永远也不回家！
　　　　　　　　1962年10月21日