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Writers Writing Dying

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Writers Writing Dying

C. K. Williams

Many I could name but won't who'd have been furious to die while they were

sleeping but did—

outrageous（粗暴的）, they'd have lamented¹（哀悼）, and never forgiven the death they'd con-

strued for themselves

being stolen from them so rudely, so crudely, without feeling themselves like

rubber gloves

stickily stripped from the innermostness they'd contrived² to hoard³（贮藏） for so

long—all of it gone,

squandered（浪费）, wasted, on what? Death, crashingly boring as long as you're able

to think and write it.

Think, write, write, think: just keep running faster and you won't even notice

you're dead.

The hard thing's when you're not thinking or writing and as far as you know

you are dead

or might as well be, with no word for yourself, just that suction-shush like a

heart pump or straw

in a milk shake and death which once wanted only to be sung back to sleep

with its tired old fangs

has me in its mouth!—and where the hell are you that chunk⁴ of dying we used

to call Muse⁵?

Well, dead or not, at least there was that fancy, of some scribbler（三流作家，小文人）, some think-

and-write person,

maybe it was yourself, soaring in the sidereal⁶ void, and not only that, you were

holding a banjo

and gleefully strumming, and singing, jaw⁷ swung a bit under and off to the

side the way crazily

happily people will do it—singing songs or not even songs, just lolly-molly

syllable⁸ sounds

and you'd escaped even from language, from having to gab⁹, from having to

write down the idiot gab.

But in the meantime isn't this what it is to be dead, with that Emily-fly

buzzing over your snout（鼻子）

that you're singing almost as she did; so what matter if you died in your sleep

or rushed towards dying

like the Sylvia-Hart part of the tribe who ceased too quickly to be and left out

some stanzas¹⁰（演出期）?

You're still aloft with your banjoless banjo, and if you're dead or asleep who

really cares?

Such fun to wake up though! Such fun too if you don't! Keep dying! Keep

writing it down!

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1 lamented
adj.被哀悼的，令人遗憾的v.（为…）哀悼，痛哭，悲伤( lament的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
her late lamented husband 她那令人怀念的已故的丈夫 We lamented over our bad luck. 我们为自己的不幸而悲伤。来自《简明英汉词典》

2 contrived
adj.不自然的，做作的；虚构的
参考例句：
There was nothing contrived or calculated about what he said.他说的话里没有任何蓄意捏造的成分。 The plot seems contrived.情节看起来不真实。

3 hoard
n./v.窖藏，贮存，囤积
参考例句：
They have a hoard of food in the basement.地下室里有他们贮藏的食物。 How many curios do you hoard in your study?你在你书房里聚藏了多少古玩？

4 chunk
n.厚片，大块，相当大的部分（数量）
参考例句：
They had to be careful of floating chunks of ice.他们必须当心大块浮冰。 The company owns a chunk of farmland near Gatwick Airport.该公司拥有盖特威克机场周边的大片农田。

5 muse
n.缪斯（希腊神话中的女神），创作灵感
参考例句：
His muse had deserted him,and he could no longer write.他已无灵感，不能再写作了。 Many of the papers muse on the fate of the President.很多报纸都在揣测总统的命运。

6 sidereal
adj.恒星的
参考例句：
The sidereal year is not used to construct a calendar. 恒星年不用于编制年历。 A sidereal day is about 4 minutes shorter than a solar day.一个恒星日比一个太阳日大约短4分钟。

7 jaw
n.颚，颌，说教，流言蜚语；v.喋喋不休，教训
参考例句：
He delivered a right hook to his opponent's jaw.他给了对方下巴一记右钩拳。 A strong square jaw is a sign of firm character.强健的方下巴是刚毅性格的标志。

8 syllable
n.音节；vt.分音节
参考例句：
You put too much emphasis on the last syllable.你把最后一个音节读得太重。 The stress on the last syllable is light.最后一个音节是轻音节。

9 gab
v.空谈，唠叨，瞎扯；n.饶舌，多嘴，爱说话
参考例句：
The young man had got the gift of gab.那个年轻小贩能说会道。 She has the gift of the gab.她口才很好。

10 stanzas
节，段( stanza的名词复数 )
参考例句：
The poem has six stanzas. 这首诗有六小节。 Stanzas are different from each other in one poem. 诗中节与节差异颇大。

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