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Lucky
If you are lucky in this life,
you will get to help your enemy
the way I got to help my mother
when she was weakened past the point of saying no.
Into the big enamel tub
half-filled with water
which I had made just right,
I lowered the childish skeleton
she had become.
Her eyelids fluttered as I soaped and rinsed
her belly and her chest,
the sorry ruin of her flanks
and the frayed gray cloud
between her legs.
Some nights, sitting by her bed
book open in my lap
while I listened to the air
move thickly in and out of her dark lungs,
my mind filled up with praise
as lush as music,
amazed at the symmetry and luck
that would offer me the chance to pay
my heavy debt of punishment and love
with love and punishment.
And once I held her dripping wet
in the uncomfortable air
between the wheelchair and the tub,
until she begged me like a child
to stop,
an act of cruelty which we both understood
was the ancient irresistible rejoicing
of power over weakness.
If you are lucky in this life,
you will get to raise the spoon
of pristine, frosty ice cream
to the trusting creature mouth
of your old enemy
because the tastebuds at least are not broken
because there is a bond between you
and sweet is sweet in any language.
如果你在這個生命裡運氣好,
你將開始幫助你的敵人
我開始幫助我的母親的模式
什麼時候她是減弱過去說不的點。
進大的搪瓷澡盆
一半充滿水
我已經弄成正好的,
我降低孩子氣的骨骼
她變得。
儘管我用肥皂擦洗並且沖洗拍打的她的眼瞼
她的肚子和她的胸,
她的側面的悲慘的毀滅
以及被使緊張的灰色的雲
在她的腿之間。
一些夜晚,在她的床旁邊坐
書在我的大腿上張開
當我聽空氣時
濃濃在她的深色的肺裡和在她的深色的肺之外移動,
我的心充以讚揚
象音樂一樣茂盛,
在對稱性和運氣感到驚奇
那將給我提供支付的機會
我的處罰的沉重的欠債和愛
由於愛和處罰。
並且一旦我容納她弄濕的往下滴
在不舒服的空氣裡
在輪椅和澡盆之間,
直到她象一個孩子一樣懇求我
停止,
一種我們兩個理解的殘忍的行為
是古老的不可抵抗的感到高興
在弱點上方的能力。
如果你在這個生命裡運氣好,
你將開始舉起這把匙
原始,嚴寒的冰淇淋
對相信的動物嘴
你的老的敵人
因為tastebuds至少沒被毀壞
因為在你們之間有契約
並且甜食在任何語言裡甜。