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 b6ae63144a98bc66c6a97351aea85970     
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 ivBzmO     
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 Adiz0     
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 Kqwzz     
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 v6CzM     
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 yy0wA     
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 5xgy9     
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 QHezJ     
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 l6Xyd     
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 1e39fe34fae422643886648813bd6ab1     
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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