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The Mower at the VA Hospital

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by John Surowiecki

Our mower¹ is young and broad-shouldered：

so were we. Love confuses him as it once did us；

the pain he feels he believes to be genuine.

He even believes it to be pain.

The tiny pink man from Verdun has shit his bed，

the handless man scratches his face like a housecat，

the mower mows² and our grief is where it was.

We remember some things， but nothing

so exact as form or color or disposition³.

All day the wards⁴ are dark， while night wears

paper shoes and speaks in insect languages.

Its milky⁵ light is sticky and inescapable；

it seals us up. Death is also a mower，

but our mower doesn't know a thing about death.

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1 mower
n.割草机
参考例句：
We need a lawn mower to cut the grass.我们需要一台草坪修剪机来割草。 Your big lawn mower is just the job for the high grass.割高草时正需要你的大割草机。

2 mows
v.刈，割( mow的第三人称单数 )
参考例句：
I saw him make mops and mows at Mary. 我看见他冲着玛丽做鬼脸。来自互联网 My mother mows the grass on the street once a week. （我妈妈每星期都在街上修一次草坪。）来自互联网

3 disposition
n.性情，性格；意向，倾向；排列，部署
参考例句：
He has made a good disposition of his property.他已对财产作了妥善处理。 He has a cheerful disposition.他性情开朗。

4 wards
区( ward的名词复数 )；病房；受监护的未成年者；被人照顾或控制的状态
参考例句：
This hospital has 20 medical [surgical] wards. 这所医院有 20 个内科[外科]病房。 It was a big constituency divided into three wards. 这是一个大选区，下设三个分区。

5 milky
adj.牛奶的，多奶的；乳白色的
参考例句：
Alexander always has milky coffee at lunchtime.亚历山大总是在午餐时喝掺奶的咖啡。 I like a hot milky drink at bedtime.我喜欢睡前喝杯热奶饮料。