酒吧餐巾纸上写的十四行诗 #11

喝太多龙舌兰，总会发生些事情。
那天晚上，我肚子空空，他不停买酒。
我太他妈的容易被感动，经常因此几乎坠入爱河，而且，
好吧，他英俊又慷慨，所以
我至少应该让他亲亲我，
用力地，温柔地，随他所愿，
野兽与美女，青柠与盐，酒神的
甜蜜伙伴。当他的朋友出现时，我感到他
温暖又慷慨，
也让他亲亲了我。
他的朋友问我，是不是肚子里的虫子
让我做出这些事。
我不确定他指的是哪种虫子，
是我吃下的那条？还是独自啃噬我的那条？

作者 / 莫伊拉·伊根
翻译 / 光诸

Bar Napkin Sonnet #11

Things happen when you drink too much mescal.
One night, with not enough food in my belly,
he kept on buying. I’m a girl who’ll fall
damn near in love with gratitude and, well, he
was hot and generous and so the least
that I could do was let him kiss me, hard
and soft and any way you want it, beast
and beauty, lime and salt–sweet Bacchus’s pards–
and when his friend showed up I felt so warm
and generous I let him kiss me too.
His buddy asked me if it was the worm
inside that makes me do the things I do.
I wasn’t sure which worm he meant, the one
I ate? The one that eats at me alone?

MOIRA EGAN