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好日子

有人谈起金钱

像谈论一位神秘爱人，

爱人出门买牛奶，再没

回来。这让我怀念起

曾经好多年，我靠着咖啡和面包度日，

总是饿呀，发工资那天走路去上班

就像一个妇人从没有水井的村子

长途跋涉去取水，然后有

一两个晚上，像其他所有人一样

吃上烤鸡，喝上红酒。

作者 / [美国] 特雷茜•K•史密斯

翻译 / 唐晓丽

The Good Life

BY TRACY K. SMITH

When some people talk about money

They speak as if it were a mysterious lover

Who went out to buy milk and never

Came back, and it makes me nostalgic

For the years I lived on coffee and bread,

Hungry all the time, walking to work on payday

Like a woman journeying for water

From a village without a well, then living

One or two nights like everyone else

On roast chicken and red wine.