练习读英文诗18：10 Requests for a Good

练习读英文诗18：10 Requests for a Good Night

10 Requests for a Good Night

[斯洛文尼亚] 阿莱士·施蒂格
Translated by Tom Lozar

1. I want to ask You for light, lots and lots of morning light, so that, come night, I won't be afraid to fall asleep in the dark.

2. I want to ask You for a full fridge, the way the larders of my ancestors were full, so I won't have to blow on the embers in my belly, I won't have to gnaw on the breasts of my wife.

3. I want to ask You for an easy conscience and a cool faith that the world is a flat and smooth plane and that I will nowhere have to set foot on a mountain whose summit I can't see, swim in a sea whose bottom I do not see.

4. I want to ask You for a big white Caddy, that with its just being there it may keep me safe from all the dangers of this life, whose wings I might wash and caress on the Lord's Day.

5. I want to ask You for something I've partly asked for already: for success, for constant, solid success, so that on days when You forget, I can myself take care of my family and myself, can fill the fridge up and the reservoir.

6. I want to ask You for a throng of children to a plan, that they may spring up from the earth like mushrooms after rain, and I just need to gather them ripe and cart them around in my arms.

7. I want to ask You for someone to stoke the fires in my bed when I come home tired and cold, the long day done, back to the tent, of bed-sheets made.

8. I want to ask You that You give me every day a sign of fullness, nothing big, a tiny sign is all I'm asking, a hole in my pocket, for instance, through which however the money does not fall on the street, it falls inside my pants somewhere instead, this so that I may lie awake without worry, so that nothing sway my faith in You.

9. I want to ask for laughter in the days of my sickness and for loud guffaws when it's time for me to die.

10. I want to ask to be without second thoughts, fast and efficient, so that I can finally shut my eyes and go to sleep.

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