愿景-西蒙阿米蒂奇

愿景

西蒙阿米蒂奇 Simon Armitage/ 刘荷辉 译

未来是一个美丽的地方，曾经。

还记得那个巴尔萨木镇

在市政厅的公共场合展出。

环形草图，艺术家的印象，

烟熏玻璃和管状钢的蓝图，

棋盘游戏郊区，交通方式

喜欢露天游乐设施或可动玩具。

像梦一样的城市，光线支架。

人们喜欢我们在旧瓶回收站

在自行车道旁边，或者是遛狗道

过度的模糊毛毡条，

或模型司机，开车回家

电动车，或在演出后期 -

漫步在林荫大道上。 他们是计划，

所有人都用整齐的左手承保

建筑师 - 一个真实，易读的脚本。

我将这个未来从北风中拉出来

在垃圾填埋场，加盖今天的日期，

和其他这样的未来一起乘风

所有人都没有生命，现在完全灭绝了。

A Vision

Simon Armitage

The future was a beautiful place, once.

Remember the full-blown balsa-wood town

on public display in the Civic Hall.

The ring-bound sketches, artists’ impressions,

blueprints of smoked glass and tubular steel,

board-game suburbs, modes of transportation

like fairground rides or executive toys.

Cities like dreams, cantilevered by light.

And people like us at the bottle-bank

next to the cycle-path, or dog-walking

over tended strips of fuzzy-felt grass,

or model drivers, motoring home in

electric cars, or after the late show -

strolling the boulevard. They were the plans,

all underwritten in the neat left-hand

of architects – a true, legible script.

I pulled that future out of the north wind

at the landfill site, stamped with today’s date,

riding the air with other such futures,

all unlived in and now fully extinct.