新浪日志286（天涯日志208）

Cross 混血儿 --Langston Hughes兰斯顿·休斯

译/李景琪·猎人hunter560

（2007年7月）
My old man's a white old man
And my old mother's black.
If ever I cursed my white old man
I take my curses back.
If ever I cursed my black old mother
And wished she were in hell,
I'm sorry for that evil wish
And now I wish her well
My old man died in a fine big house.
My ma died in a shack.
I wonder were I'm going to die,
Being neither white nor black?
我老爸是白人，

我老妈是黑人。

如果我曾诅咒过白人老爸，

现在我收回咒语。

如果我曾诅咒过黑人老妈，

并但愿她下地狱，

我为这罪恶愿望而羞耻。

现在我祝愿她身体健康。

我老爸死在华屋巨厦里，

我老妈死在简陋棚屋里，

我不知道如果我要死去，

既不是白人也不是黑人？