在该没有英雄的地方
黛蒙德‧雷诺兹是位英雄(注)
她尽力保持冷静跟女儿
坐在后座而菲兰多慢慢变成
身旁的记忆 ，他身体仍抵著枪
窗外的警察怕这个已变成神话的人
警察觉得他是丧尸
他已经把自己想成鬼
在这个处理我们像处理污水一样的世界
黛蒙德该像钻石一样强韧
钻石无坚不摧但为什么他们
要那样考验她?为什么他们
要用子弹射穿我们的身体
像要知道我们到底是不是
一场噩梦?为什么他们要把我们
吓成怪兽?为什么他们安慰警察
不安慰家属?为什么官员离开了?
为什么量脉搏前他们先看了记录?
为什么叫救护车前他们先捏造了故事?
比起杀戮 他们更怕被逮到
为什么他们只保护自己 服务自己 而不是我们
为什么他们要我们道歉
只因为挡到子弹的路
警察有什么好的?
对黑人来说 美国梦又是什么?
不过是没有我们的美国做的一场梦
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注:黛蒙德‧雷诺兹的故事详如联结
http://nyti.ms/2cNV4KB
译后注:此为原诗第三部分 文长故采回文方式
iii
Diamond Reynolds is a hero
where no one should have to be a hero
steady as she can be with daughter
in the back seat and Philando
slowly becoming a memory
right next to her, gun still pointed
at his body, cop outside the window
scared of a man he already
turned into a myth. thinks him
zombie when he already
imagined him ghost.
Diamond be diamond strong
in a world treat our people
like bad water. Diamond
unbreakable but why they
test her like that? why they
send bullets through our
bodies like they trying
to see if we real or just
a bad dream? why they
nightmare us into beast?
why they comfort the cops
and not the families?
why administrative leave?
why they look up the record
before they check the pulse?
why they try to spin the story
before they call the ambulance?
why they more worried about
getting caught then they worried
about the killing? why they
protect and serve themselves
from us? why they want us to
apologize for being
in the way of they bullets?
what good is police?
what is the American dream
to a brown person
except a dream of America
leaving us alone?
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