他们是怎么做到的，那些做爱

How do they do it, the ones who make love

却没有爱的人？美得像舞者，

without love? Beautiful as dancers,

像花滑运动员一样在对方身上滑行

gliding over each other like ice-skaters

滑过坚冰，手指勾入

over the ice, fingers hooked

彼此的身体，脸

inside each other's bodies, faces

红得像牛排、红酒，湿得像

red as steak, wine, wet as the

刚出生的孩子，他们的母亲正要

children at birth whose mothers are going to

将他们排出。他们是如何要到了

give them away. How do they come to the

要到了要到了神的身旁要到了

come to the come to the God come to the

静静的水边，却并不爱

still waters, and not love

那和他们一起来到这里的人？光

the one who came there with them, light

像蒸汽一样从他们的皮肤上

rising slowly as steam off their joined

缓缓升起。这些才是真正的信徒、

skin? These are the true religious,

纯粹主义者、专业人士，他们不会

the purists, the pros, the ones who will not

接受假弥赛亚、爱牧师

accept a false Messiah, love the

而不是爱上帝的人。他们不会

priest instead of the God. They do not

错把爱侣视为自己的快乐，

mistake the lover for their own pleasure,

他们就像伟大的跑者：他们知道自己只是

they are like great runners: they know they are alone

孤独地与路面、寒冷、风、

with the road surface, the cold, the wind,

鞋子的合脚程度、心脑血管的

the fit of their shoes, their over-all cardio-

健康状况相伴——只有这些因素，才像

vascular health—just factors, like the partner

床上的伴侣，而不是真相，真相就是

in the bed, and not the truth, which is the

那宇宙中唯有的身体独自

single body alone in the universe

对抗自己最好的时光。

against its own best time.