吕约《坐着》
Sitting
By Lü Yue (1972-) tr. Fan Jinghua
All that have butts
And no wings
Sit
And need to sit
Love to sit
Have to sit
Cannot but sit
They sit comfortably, beautifully
Gravely
Securely
And forget that they were not born with the ability
To sit
The vertebrate cannot sit, nor the arthropod
The first time to sit steady
Pays the price of blood
With teeth knocking at the chair-back
And one becomes sworn brothers
With all the chairs
And become bosom friends
With all that sit
Whenever pushing open a door, one’d look
First of all with one eye
For the one who sits
And the other eye looks for a chair
Wishing that all the chairs ogling at oneself
The most pleasing chair will walk up by itself
Asking you to sit down and putting a yellow cushion for you
The most friendly one coughs
Or nods
Indicating that you may sit
You and he both understand
As long as you sit
There are chances
No matter you are cleaning shoes, fishing or biting nails
Sitting is required to write poems
Sitting is required to negotiate
Sitting is required to undersign a mandate
The most wonderful is to sit on someone’s laps
But this could not be long
For he would worry that you might finally sit on his head
To say right or wrong when you are sitting
Is more powerful
Than when you stand
For there will be people running to propagate it
To those who are standing or kneeling
There may be a little inconvenience in sitting
But it would make other hard to breathe
If everyone is sitting
While you alone are standing
There is much danger in this
It would be better that everyone stand while you sit
But there is danger in this too
To walk or run is to search answers
To lie down is to abandon answers
But to sit means you know where the answers are
For sitting is the answer
Dear friends
I remember your sitting postures
You sit beautifully
Securely
Sitting down is an authorized right
Sitting down is a power
From sitting down
To sudden standing up
There is also a power
But that power is still not comparable
To sitting all the time
The most dreadful for the most powerful one
Is for the enemy to take a chair
And sit down in front of him
The only persons who do not fear are the children
Who do not like to sit down
To sit at the street corner waiting for no one is also an authorized right
To sit by a tomb is another kind of right
To sit on a toilet bowl is the least right
Like a reverent monk waiting for nirvana
Is this the supreme right?
To sit on a portrait
In an artwork saleroom to wait for the highest bid from a Dubai man
Is the highest state one can achieve
But what if a child who refuses to sit down
Sets fire on the portrait?
When sitting, the tail is under the rear
And this can modify one’s physique and blood type
So the legs become shorter and feet grow smaller
While the belly and head are turning bigger and bigger
Like those half-bodied family in a pact of pokers
All the vitality and ignorance one was born to
Expands during sitting
One sits down to nod
To count money
To make love
To kill others, to make up
To wait for death
And forgets that when sitting one can fly
With the gunpowder from the earliest dynasty or the rocket of the latest model
To launch oneself away
To a crater in the southeastern corner on the Pluto
And when landing one still keeps a sitting posture
If you want to keep that posture to the last minute
God will bring a chair
And let you sit before him
The rest from His Creation will not object
They would stand, squat, lie face up or down
In the corridor outside God’s office
Their eyes dull
Like a pile of rocks
They are neither sitting nor not sitting
Are they intending to crack down those who are sitting like sitting?
Will they punish all those who sit
And force them to pay tax?
Or to force them to sit in a circle and sing a nursery song?
Are they designing the plan?
Some people sit so straight
As if sitting is not necessary at all
About the author:
Lü Yue (surname or family name is read as /lju:/, and her name is read as /jue/) was born in 1972, and graduated from East China Normal University in SShanghai. She wrote with a very colloquial style, and sometimes is grouped with the so-called "The Lower Part of a Body" poets, but she is more gender conscious.
坐着
吕约
所有没翅膀
有屁股的东西
都坐着
需要坐着
热爱坐着
不得不坐着
不坐不行
坐得舒服，坐得漂亮
坐得庄严
坐得安稳
以至于忘了自己不是一生下来
就能坐的
脊椎动物不能,节肢动物也不能
第一次坐稳
付出了血的代价
牙磕在椅背上
从此与所有的椅子
成了拜把兄弟
与所有坐着的东西
成了知己
无论推开哪扇门，首先
一只眼睛找那个
坐着的人
一只眼睛找椅子
渴望所有的椅子都只对自己使眼色
最热情的椅子自己走到跟前
请你坐下，还给你递上一只黄色靠垫
最友善的人咳嗽一声
或点点头
暗示你坐下
你和他都相信
只要坐下来
就有了机会
哪怕是坐着擦鞋，钓鱼或啃指甲
写诗需要坐着
谈判需要坐着
签署命令坐着
最美妙的是坐在另一个人腿上
这种好事是不长久的
因为他担心你最后坐到他头上
坐着说“对”或“错”
比站着说
更有力量
马上就有人跑着去传达
给另一些站着或跪着的
坐着虽然行动不便
但足以让别人呼吸困难
所有人都坐着
只有你站着
这很危险
最好是所有人都站着只有你坐着
这也危险
走或跑是寻找答案
躺下是放弃答案
坐着是知道哪里有答案
坐着就是答案
亲爱的朋友们
我记得你们坐着的姿态
你们坐得漂亮
坐得稳
坐着就是一种权力
坐着就是力量
坐着坐着
突然站起来
也能产生一种力量
但还是不如坐着
有力量
最有力量的人最害怕
敌人搬一把椅子
在你对面坐着
只有那些不肯坐下来的孩子
不害怕
坐在街角无人可等也是一种权力
坐在坟边是另一种权力
坐在马桶上是最低权力
像高僧一样坐在瓮里等待涅槃
是最高权力吗?
坐在画像上
在潘家园市场等待高价拍卖给一个迪拜人
是最高境界
但万一被一个不肯坐的孩子
放火烧掉呢?
坐着，尾巴压在屁股底下
改变了你的体态和血型
腿越来越短脚越来越小
肚子和脑袋越来越大
像扑克牌上的半身家族
与生俱来的活力与无知
在坐之中膨胀
坐着点头
坐着数钱
坐着做爱
坐着杀人，坐着化妆
坐着等死
忘了可以坐着飞
坐在一把高背椅上
用商代的火药或长江八号火箭
把自己发射出去
降落在冥王星东南角的一个坑里
着陆时保持坐姿
如果你想将坐姿保持到最后一刻
上帝会搬一把椅子
让你坐在他对面
其他的造物群不会发表意见
它们在上帝办公室门口的走廊上
站着，蹲着，躺着，趴着
眼神无光
像一堆石头
似坐非坐
它们是想打击那些坐得太像坐着的人吗？
它们会罚所有坐着的
向它们纳税吗？
会罚他们坐成一圈合唱一支幼儿园的歌吗？
它们是不是在策划？
有些人坐得如此笔直
仿佛坐着根本没有必要
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