作者簡介

袁紹珊

　　詩人、專欄作家，生於澳門，北京大學中文系及藝術系學士、多倫多大學東亞系及亞太研究項目碩士。曾獲「澳門文學獎」等獎項，作品散見於兩岸四地刊物。個人詩集包括《太平盛世的形上流亡》（香港，2008）、《Wonderland》（台北，2011）、《這裡 / Here》（英譯詩選集）（澳門，2011）。

　　Poet and writer, Un Sio San was born in Macau in 1985 and graduated from Peking University and the University of Toronto. She has won several writing prizes, including the Macao Literature Prize. Her works can be found in literary journals published in Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China, and a bilingual edition of her work titled Here was published in 2011 by the Association of Stories in Macau.
 

給二十一世紀的無情詩

這將是一個大刀闊斧的時代
需要紙巾來擦拭，所以我寫下一首詩

在理性的下午
我到處叩門，心中的荒原高價待沽

連蝙蝠都佯裝流星
在新潮中，愛是殘舊的盆景

在嗜血的二十一世紀
我只想學好普通話，做一個普通人

Loveless Poem for the Twenty-First Century

this will be an age of large knives and broad axes
we’ll need some paper to wipe them clean, so I wrote a poem

on a rational afternoon
I knocked on every door, trying to sell high on the waste land in my heart

bats are dressed up as meteors
love these days is like a decrepit bonsai

in the twenty-first century with its taste for blood
I just want to learn the common language, be a common person

(Translated by Brian Skerratt)