作品原文

唐祈 《老妓女》

夜，在阴险地笑，
有比白昼更惨白的
都市浮肿的跳跃，叫嚣……

夜使你盲目，太多欢乐的窗
和屋，你走入闹市中央，
走进更大的孤独。

听，淫欲喧哗地从身上
践踏：你——肉体的挥霍者啊，罪恶的
黑夜，你笑得象一朵罂粟花。

无端的笑，无端的痛哭，
生命在生活前匍匐，残酷的
买卖，竟分成两种饥渴的世界。

最后，抛你在市场以外，唉，那个
衰斜的塔顶，一个老女人的象征
深凹的窗：你绝望了的眼睛。

你塌陷的鼻孔腐烂城一个洞，
却暴露了更多别人荒淫的语言，
不幸的名字啊，你比他们庄严。

作品译文

An Old Prostitute
Tang Qi

The night, is sneering viciously;
The jumping of bloated cities
Is whiter than the white day, clamouring…

The night blinds you; too many joyful windows
And houses; you enter into the center of downtown,
And enter into greater loneliness.

Hark, the lust overrides blatantly on the
Body: you — waster of carnal body, the villainous
Night, you are smiling like a poppy flower.

To smile for no reason, to cry for no reason;
Life lies prostrate before subsistence; cruel
Business, is divided into two hungry and thirsty worlds.

In the end, you are thrown out of the market; alas, the
Declining tower top, symbol of an old woman
A deep-sunken window: your eyes of despair.

Your caved-in nostril is decomposed into a cave,
But more incontinent words by other people are revealed.
Ill-fated name, O, you are more sublime than them.