宝莱坞的集体神话

(一首拼贴诗，词句来自五部宝莱坞电影）

看看你的脚，如此美丽。不要
踩在地上，以免把它们弄脏；

你的未来将充满荆棘。他心怀恐惧，
了解死亡。死亡

会在你的头上跳舞——请抬起你的眼睛。我是
它的仆人，生来饥渴；你是我的珠宝

我的衣裳。我涂上
胭脂，为爱人妆点自己；害怕

邪恶之眼，所以我用黑色勾勒
我的下眼线。花瓣凋零，荆棘

保持锐利。爱情带来破坏，毁灭生命。
你嘴唇的颤抖是清晨，你松开的发束

是午夜。有什么地方还会包容恐惧，
如果花朵的刺不害怕凋零？

作者 / [美国] 拉吉夫-莫哈比尔
翻译 / 光诸

Bollywood Confabulation

(a collage poem of famous lines translated from

Bollywood movies: Pakeezah, Sholay, Mughal-e-
Azam, Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, and Kabhi Kabhi)

Look at your feet, so beautiful. Do
not step on the ground, filth will smear them;

your future will fill with pricks. He with a
fearful heart, understand dead. Death will dance

on your head — lift your eyes and see. I am
its servant, thirsty from birth; you my jewels

my raiments. I redden my part, adorn
myself for my beloved, terrified

of evil-eye so with black kohl I streak
my waterline. Petals shrivel but thorns

keep sharp. Love brings ruin and ruins lives.
Your lips’ tremor is morning; when you let

loose your tresses, midnight. What place has fear
if a bloom’s barbs do not dread withering?

BY RAJIV MOHABIR