"What Do Women Want?"
I want a red dress.
I want it flimsy and cheap,
I want it too tight, I want to wear it
until someone tears it off me.
I want it sleeveless and backless,
this dress, so no one has to guess
what's underneath. I want to walk down
the street past Thrifty's and the hardware store
with all those keys glittering in the window,
past Mr. and Mrs. Wong selling day-old
donuts in their café, past the Guerra brothers
slinging pigs from the truck and onto the dolly,
hoisting the slick snouts over their shoulders.
I want to walk like I'm the only
woman on earth and I can have my pick.
I want that red dress bad.
I want it to confirm
your worst fears about me,
to show you how little I care about you
or anything except what
I want. When I find it, I'll pull that garment
from its hanger like I'm choosing a body
to carry me into this world, through
the birth-cries and the love-cries too,
and I'll wear it like bones, like skin,
it'll be the goddamned
dress they bury me in.
P.S.金-阿多尼诺(Kim Addonizio)
1954年阿多尼诺出生于美国华盛顿特区。她是四部诗集的作者,最新出版的有《被称之为爱情的是什么》(2004年诺顿出版社)和《告诉我》(2000年蟒蛇版本)。阿多尼诺与劳克斯合著有《诗人手册:快乐写诗指南》(1997年诺顿出版社),另外还写有小说《小美人们》(2005年西蒙苏斯特出版社)。她还是刊物《五指评论》的发起人。阿多尼诺曾荣获多种荣誉和奖项,其中有:美国艺术捐赠基金奖、普西卡特奖、联邦俱乐部诗歌奖牌等。她在哥达德学院教授艺术硕士课程,家住旧金山。
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