There are great puddles of blood on the world 有血的世界大水坑

Where is it all going? all this spilled blood? 它在哪里都去？这一切泻血？

Is it the earth that drinks it and gets drunk? 是不是因为喝它，并得到地球喝醉了吗？

Funny kind of drunkography then, 滑稽样drunkography的话，

So wise, 所以，明智的，

So monotonous, 那么单调，

No, 不，

The earth doesn’t get drunk 地球不醉

The earth doesn’t turn askew 地球不转那副

It pushes its little car regularly, it’s four seasons, 它经常推它的小车上，它的四季分明，

Rain, snow, hail, fair weather, 雨，雪，冰雹，天气晴朗时，

Never is it drunk 决不是喝醉了

It’s with difficulty it permits itself from time to time 它们也有困难它允许自身从时间到时间

An unhappy little volcano 一个不快乐的小火山

It turns, the earth, 事实证明，地球，

It turns with its trees, its gardens, its houses 事实证明了它的树，它的花园，它的房子

It turns with its great pools of blood 原来用血的大池

And all living things turn with it and bleed 和所有的生物都变成了它和流血

   

It doesn’t give a damn the earth 它不给一个该死的地球

It turns 原来

And all living things set up a howl, 和所有的生物都设立了嚎，

It doesn’t give a damn, 它不给一个该死的，

It turns 原来

It doesn’t stop turning 它不会停止转动

And the blood doesn’t stop running 而血不停止运行

   

Where’s it going all this spilled blood? 凡样了这一切泻血？

Murder’s blood, war’s blood, misery’s blood, 杀人的血，战争的血液，痛苦的血液，

And the blood of men tortured in prisons, 和男人折磨监狱中的血液，

And the blood of children calmly tortured by their papa and their mama 儿童的血液通过他们的爸爸和他们的妈妈平静地折磨

And the blood of men whose heads bleed in padded cells 和人的头在流血填充细胞的血液

And the roofers blood when the roofer slips and falls from the roof 而在帮人血的时候，盖屋顶滑倒并从屋顶落下

And the blood that comes and flows in great gushes with the newborn 而且来得快，血与新生儿伟大的涌出流

The mother cries, 母亲的呼喊，

The baby cries, 孩子一哭，

The blood flows 血液流

The earth turns 地球转

The earth doesn’t stop turning, 地球不停止转动，

The blood doesn’t stop flowing 血不停止流动

   

Where’s it going all this spilled blood? 凡样了这一切泻血？

Blood of the blackjacked, 在blackjacked血，

Of the humiliated, 的羞辱，

Of suicides 自杀

Of firing squad victims 行刑队受害者

Of the condemned 的谴责

And the blood of those that die just like that 而那些血的死就这样

By accident 意外

   

In the street a living being goes by with all his blood inside 在街上有灵的活人去用他所有的血里

Suddenly there he is, dead 突然，有他在，死了

And all his blood outside 和所有他的血液外

And other living beings make the blood disappear 和其他众生使血液中消失

They carry the body away 他们携带的尸体抬走

But it’s stubborn the blood 但它顽强的血

And there where the dead one was, 而且那里的死者之一是，

Much later, all black, 后来，全黑，

A little blood still stretches 一点血还在延伸

Coagulated blood, 凝固的血，

Life’s rust, body’s rust 生活中的铁锈，身体生锈

Blood curdled like milk, 血液凝固如牛奶，

Like milk when it turns, 像牛奶事实时，

When it turns like the earth, 当它变成像地球一样，

Like the earth it turns with its milk, 像地球就变成了它的牛奶，

With its cows, 凭借其牛，

With its living, 凭借其生活，

With its dead, 凭借其死，

The earth that turns with its trees, 大地与树木变成，

With it’s living beings, its houses 与它的众生，其房屋

The earth that turns with marriages, 地球与婚姻转动，

Burials, 墓葬，

Shells, 贝壳，

Regiments, 团，

The earth that turns and turns and turns 那转身转身转的地球

With its great streams of blood. 凭借其巨大的血液流。