Provisionally 'I' practically alive 暂时我实际上还活着

Mistook signs for signified 误以为标志所指

And so since I’ve often tried 所以，因为我经常尝试

To run them off a cliff like Gadarene swine 若要运行它们掉下悬崖一样朝下猪

and tied my thought-ropes in anchor bends 绑我的想法，在绳索弯锚

wondering whether we were someone better then, 想知道我们是否有人更好，然后，

or maybe just better able to pretend 或者只是能够更好地假装

(and what better means to our inevitable end!) （有什么更好的方式对我们的必然归宿！ ）

   

[Bear:] [熊： ]

No, I don't know if I know 不，我不知道我是否知道

though some, with certainty insist 虽然一些人来说，肯定坚持

'no certainty exists' “不确定性存在

well I'm certain enough of this: 好，我敢肯定，这就够了：

in the past 14 years, there's only one girl I've kissed 在过去的14年中，只有一个女孩，我已经吻

In the blistering heat of the Asbury pier 在阿斯伯里码头酷热

we sat quiet as monks on the Ferris wheel 我们坐在安静的僧侣在摩天轮

Until looking down at the waltzer 直到低头看着waltzer

and out at the sea 进出海

I asked her, "did it ever have that recurring fantasy 我问她， “没有想过有经常性幻想

where you push little kids 在那里你推小孩

from the tops of the ride?" 从该机的顶部？ “

she shook her head no 她摇摇头表示没有

I said "oh, neither do I" 我说：“哦，我也不”

and with my grandmother's ring 与奶奶的戒指

I went down on one knee 我就单膝下跪

and the subsequent catastrophe 和随后的灾难

has since haunted me 一直以来困扰我

like a fiberglass ghost in the attic 就像在阁楼玻璃纤维鬼

my inconveniently selective memory 我不便选择性记忆

as provisionally 'You' mercifully withdrew 如暂时你大发慈悲退出

all the bearing points we thought we knew 所有的支承点，我们认为我们知道

Day's run, days set plot 一天的运行，天集剧情

our compass shot 我们的指南针拍

we sailed waywardly on 我们恣意航行

singing out midnight archer songs 唱了半夜射手歌曲

until well past dawn 直到早已过黎明

it's still dark in the deck of our boat 它仍然是黑暗中的我们的船的甲板上

haphazardly blown broken bows 胡乱吹断弓

our aimless arrow-words 我们漫无目的的箭头的话

don't mean a thing 并不意味着一件事情

so by now I think 所以现在我觉得

it's pretty obvious that there's no God 这是很明显的，有没有神

and there's definitely a God! 而且也绝对是个神！

   

[Fox:] [狐： ]

I dreamt of the rocks at the Asbury dunes, 我梦见岩石在阿斯伯里沙丘，

and that you jumped from the top 而且你从上面跳下

of the Log Flume, 日志水槽中，

and they gather like wolves 他们搜集像狼

on the boardwalk below 下面的浮桥

and they're howling for answers 他们正在嚎叫的答案

no wolf can know 没有狼也知道

I charged at the waves 我嘱咐的波

With a glass in my hand 用玻璃拿在手中

I was tossed like a ball 我像扔一个球

at the bottle stand 在瓶架

and I landed beside your 我登陆了你的身边

remains on the stones 留在石

where you cold fingers 在这里你冰冷的手指

wrapped around my ankle bone 缠在我的脚踝骨

while maybe ten feet away was a star 而也许十步之外是一个明星

thousands of times the size of our sun 数千次我们的太阳的大小

exploding like the tiny balloons 像爆炸的小气球

you'd throw darts at 你在扔飞镖

   

[Bear:] [熊： ]

I slept until our chest was full 我睡了，直到我们的胸部充满

of yarn we spun from Shetland wool 纱，我们从设得兰羊毛纺

in socks from where the Dorset grows 在载有赛特增长袜子

sheared and scoured hours before 剪切和冲刷小时前

the rooster crows 鸡叫

   

[Fox:] [狐： ]

the price of German silver fell 德银价下跌

threw this disused thalers 抛出这个废弃的塔勒

down the superstition well 下来的迷信以及