《美食祈禱和戀愛》Chapter 72 (157):印度詩二首之一
Two Poems from an Ashram in India
來自印度道場的兩首詩First
第一首All this talk of nectar and bliss is starting to piss me off.
這些甘露天堂的言談開始令我倒胃，
I don't know about you, my friend,
朋友，我不知你的情況，but my path to God ain't no sweet waft of incense.
但通往神的道路對我而言可不芳香，It's a cat set loose in a pigeon pen,
彷彿把貓放入鴿籠，and I'm the cat—
我是那貓——but also them who yell like hell when they get pinned.
也是被釘住而大吼大叫的那些人。My path to God is a worker's uprising,
通往神的道路對我而言是勞工暴動，won't be peace till they unionize.
除非組成工會，否則不得平靜。Their picket is so fearsome the National Guard won't go near them.
這些示威者如此令人生畏，國民警衛隊不敢靠前。My path was beaten unconscious before me,
我的前方道路久經踐踏、失去知覺，by a small brown man I never got to see,
是我未能見到的小棕人所爲，who chased God through India, shin-deep in mud,
他追趕神穿越印度，泥巴及脛，barefoot and famined, malarial blood,
赤腳，缺糧，瘧疾纏身，sleeping in doorways, under bridges—a hobo.
睡在門口、橋下——一個遊民。(Which is short for "homeward bound," you know)
（可知，這是前往返鄉途中的簡稱）And he now chases me, saying: "Got it yet, Liz?
如今他追趕我，說：小莉，懂了沒？What HOMEWARD means? What BOUND really is?"
‘返鄉’是何意？何謂‘前往’的真實意義？
