作者：约翰·阿什贝利（1927 - 2017）
翻译：忒绿
如果这是七月，为什么它看起来像八月？
即使长大后可悲地进入了这个现实世界
我本人也不问这些问题。
那家饭馆为什么拉下了卷帘门？
月亮的余影就像深雕的
发网笼罩装饰着体育场
蝙蝠在排水沟里垂涎。
如果每个人都如此热衷于说明他们所知道的，
为什么人类学课程是不公开的？
Deeply Incised
by John Ashberry (1927 - 2017)
If this is July, why does it look like August?
Sadly growing up into the real world
I don’t even ask these questions myself.
Why are the shutters drawn
over that restaurant?
The moon’s backwash is like a deeply incised
hairnet against the stadium
Bats drool into the gutter.
If everybody is so intent on illustrating what they know,
why is the ant syllabus closed?
