咕唧咕

你可以叫我小狗，或者叫我小圆面包。
你可以叫我玻璃蛋糕、克罗马农便便，或者鸽子笼……
你甚至可以在我们四目相交时轻轻碰两下嘴唇——
啊，无论距离多远……
但无论你选择什么名字（咕唧咕也可以），
请知道我都可以接受，
这些名字会在我内心涌动的愚蠢兴奋下，突然获得共性……
那个名字是我的，是的，比我的本名更重要，
因为我心爱的人给了我这个名字……
再次被命名，这次是正确的名字，我用这个名字欺骗自己
我为它已经等待多年……
（多么，多么傻的男人。）

作者 / [美国]基特·施鲁特
翻译 / 光诸

Coochy-Coo

You can call me Puppy, or you can call me Sweetybuns.
You can call me Glasscake, Cromagnonpoops, or Pigeonselter . . .
You could even just click your tongue twice whenever we
catch eyes—
ah, from no matter how far away . . .
but whatever it is you choose to call me (Coochy-Coo would
do)
know I’ll gut it out,
and all these names will become uniform, suddenly, under
this dumb excitement always welling up inside me . . .
That name is mine, yes, more so than my given name,
because the one I adore gave it to me . . .
To be named again, correctly this time, with this name I
trick myself into believing I’ve been waiting for all these
years. . .
(Silly, silly man.)

By Kit Schluter