躺下，你是水平的。

Lie down, you are horizontal.

站起，你就不是。

Stand up, you are not.

我想要我的命有人性。

I wanted my fate to be human.

如香水，

Like a perfume

不选择它散发的方向，

that does not choose the direction it travels,

不能直、不能弯，挡不开、留不住。

that cannot be straight or crooked, kept out or kept.

是、否、或者，

Yes, No, Or

——一天，一生，从它们中滑过，

—a day, a life, slips through them,

蜕第三层皮，

taking off the third skin,

蜕第四层。

taking off the fourth.

鞋的逻辑终于简单，

The logic of shoes becomes at last simple,

动物的问题，趿拉着。

an animal question, scuffing.

旧鞋子，老路——

Old shoes, old roads—

疑问总变成新的。

the questions keep being new ones.

像两个负数乘以雨，

Like two negative numbers multiplied by rain

变成橘子和橄榄。

into oranges and olives.