圣犹大
（詹姆斯·赖特/作，张文武/译）
在出去自杀的路上，我碰到
一伙儿暴徒，他们正在痛打一个人。
我跑过去解除他的痛苦，我忘了
我的名字，我的编号，我的日子是如何开始的，
士兵们又如何在花园的石柱旁转来转去，
并唱着打趣的歌；忘了那一整天，
他们的标枪是如何与众人周旋的；忘了我自己
是如何讨到一个合适的价码，然后溜走的。
从天堂被放逐之后，我看到了这个被痛打的受害者。
剥光衣服，跪着，被丢在那里哭喊着。我把绳子
扔到一边，跑过去，也不理会那些穿制服的人：
然后我想起我的肉体曾吞下的面包，
那曾啃噬我肉体的吻。在无望的谴责声中，
我徒劳地把这个人搂在怀里。
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When I went out to kill
myself, I caught
A pack of hoodlums beating up a man.
Running to spare his suffering, I forgot
My name, my number, how my day began,
How soldiers milled around the garden stone
And sang amusing songs; how all that day
Their javelins measured crowds; how I alone
Bargained the proper coins, and slipped away.
Banished from heaven, I found this victim beaten,
Stripped, kneed, and left to cry. Dropping my rope
Aside, I ran, ignored the uniforms:
Then I remembered bread my flesh had eaten,
The kiss that ate my flesh. Flayed without hope,
I held the man for nothing in my arms.
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