杨∙西思翎｜哪里出了错（田海燕译）

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Something Went Wrong

A Poem by Jan Siesling

O my beloved and wonderful creature

I must tell you a tale

Before you lie down, it is late

And you must listen

O truly beloved creature

Your race is a terrible race

I created the earth for you

And created you for the earth

I invented life for you

And you for life

I am still proud of myself

Said with sincere modesty

It was quite a success

If one compares it to other shots

In the endless darkness

Boring and so repetitive

Life made all the difference

I needed indeed a few billion years

To find the right combination

But you do look like your maker

Just as fine as I imagined you

At my tentative beginnings

But after all a billion years feel

Not so different from a million

Don’t be surprised that I love you

Every one of you apart

Every one of you born as a baby

Every one lovable loving and loved

O naive and surprising creature

Where did it go wrong

Where did I go wrong

Where did we … arm in arm go wrong

Something did go wrong

Something worth a billion years

Of hard work and deep hope

The human race is a terrible race

I had made roses for you and

The eagle and the fox

And honey and hardwood

And kisses in the moonlit night

Something went wrong

You want to leave our earth

Focus of your greatest brains

Anguish of your united intelligence

You want more than dolphins

In transparent oceans more

Than dragonflies over the creek

More than the return of spring

You look for life out there

Where there is none but

A void of a billion years

No voice resounds in the silence

In your dream you call for Venus

Mars and Mercury the moons

Of Saturn but Saturn you remember

Devoured his children like stones

O my tender and smart kid

I know you since I made you

And forgive you all your flaws

Life searches life what else

Such was my bet (I smile)

From the hesitant beginnings

Life searches life and

You call love one of my names

I gave you the water and the fish

I gave you the air and the birds

I gave you the prairies and the beasts

I gave you the flowers and the fruits

I gave you the life you search for

I gave you the love you need

I gave you beauty in your eyes

I gave you a body in your arms

Something went wrong

O my beloved and infinitely dear

O my beloved and infinitely dumb

You look for life out there

But you kill the life out here

You kill the bears and the bees

You kill the tigers and the trees

You kill the chimpanzees

You kill the lice and the fleas

You kill the whales in the seas

You kill the penguins and the tuna

And the lion and the puma

And the coral in the coral sea

All the life I gave thee

O my bewitched, as an adieu

Will you then also kill me?

You clean the earth so thoroughly

You wipe the good with the bad

Soon it will look more like a moon

You also will be gone

For another billion years

Which will feel like a trillion

A trillion years to cry my tears

And wonder what went wrong

杨∙西思翎诗一首

哪里出了错

田海燕译

哦，我心爱而奇妙的生灵

我得告诉你一个故事

在你躺下之前，天已晚了

可你一定要听

哦，诚然被爱着的生灵

你的族群是可怕的族群

我为你创造了大地

也为大地创造了你

我为你发明了生命

为生命发明了你

我仍感到骄傲

我真诚谦逊地言说

它相当成功

如果将之相比于其它尝试

无尽的黑暗

无聊又多么重复

生命改变了一切

我的确需要几十亿年

找到合适的组合

你看上去是像你的创造者

正如我想象你那样的好

在我试探的开始

终究十亿年的感觉

与一百万年并无那么不同

不必惊讶我爱你们

每一个单独的你

每一个的你们都曾降生为婴儿

每一个的你们都可爱、爱着、被爱着

哦，天真而令人惊讶的生灵

这哪里出了错

我哪里出了错

我们……手挽手哪里出了错

哪里的确出了错

那十亿年的

辛勤工作和深切希望

人类族群是个可怕的族群

我为你做了玫瑰

鹰和狐狸

还有蜜和硬木

还有月光下的吻

哪里出了错

你们想离开我们的地球

你们最强大大脑的聚焦

你们联合智能的焦灼

你想要的不止是

透明海洋里的海豚不止

是掠过小溪的蜻蜓

不止是春天的归来

你在那里找寻生命

那里别无他物除了

一个十亿年的虚空

没有声音回响在寂静

你在梦里呼唤金星

火星和水星，土星的

卫星，但土星你记得

吞噬了它的孩子如吞噬石头

哦，我娇嫩而聪明的孩子

我了解你因为我造了你

而原谅你所有的缺点

生命去寻找生命，还能有什么

这便是我的赌注（我微笑）

自从试探性的开始

生命寻找生命，而

你将爱作为我的一个名字

我给你水和鱼

我给你空气和鸟

我给你草原和野兽

我给你花儿和果实

我给你，你追寻的生活

我给你，你需要的爱

我给你，你眼中的美

我给你，你怀抱的身体

哪里出了错

哦，我亲爱的、无限珍惜的

哦，我亲爱的、无比愚蠢的

你在那里寻找生命

你却在这里杀害生命

你杀害熊和蜜蜂

你杀害老虎和树木

你杀害黑猩猩

你杀死虱子和跳蚤

你杀死海里的鲸鱼

你杀死企鹅和金枪鱼

还有狮子和美洲豹

以及珊瑚海中的珊瑚

一切生命，我赋予您的

噢，我那被迷惑的，作为告别

那么你也会杀了我吗？

你将地球清得如此彻底

你将好的坏的一并抹去

不久它看上去将更像月球

你也将消失

再过十亿年

那感觉更像一万亿年

用一万亿年来流我的泪水

且想着哪里出了错

杨·西思翎，诗人、作家、艺术史学家和译者。生于荷兰，曾在法国生活多年，现居于美国。他的书（Art is More）被译为中文《艺术不止美》，2019年由江苏凤凰美术出版社出版；2020年他发表了《“教我如何不想她”-刘半农的歌谣》；他翻译的五四诗人徐玉诺的英译本诗集《将来之花园》于2021年出版。

田海燕，生于河南，曾在兰州、南京和美国等地学习数学并任教。现居美国，是南密西西比大学的数学教授。她对于诗歌和艺术持久的热爱使她成为一个诗人，诗文的译者，和中国艺术的收藏者。田海燕于2018年获首届徐玉诺诗歌奖的翻译奖。