What we once thought we had we didn't, and what we have now will never be that way again 我们曾经以为，我们有，我们没有，我们现在绝不会是这样再次

So we call upon the author to explain 因此，我们呼吁作者解释

   

Our myxomatoid kids spraddle the streets, we've shunned them from the greasy-grind 我们myxomatoid孩子spraddle街头，我们已经从油腻碾他们避之唯恐不及

The poor little things, they look so sad and old as they mount us from behind 可怜的小东西，它们看起来好伤心，老，因为他们安装我们从后面

I ask them to desist and to refrain 我要求他们停止，并避免

And then we call upon the author to explain 然后，我们呼吁作者解释

   

Rosary clutched in his hand, he died with tubes up his nose 玫瑰攥在手里，他用管了他的鼻子死亡

And a cabal of angels with finger cymbals chanted his name in code 和天使手指钹的阴谋代码高呼他的名字

We shook our fists at the punishing rain 我们握了握拳头我们在惩治雨

And we call upon the author to explain 我们呼吁撰文解释

   

He said everything is messed up around here, everything is banal and jejune 他说，一切都搞砸在这里，一切都是平庸和不成熟

There is a planetary conspiracy against the likes of you and me in this idiot constituency of the moon 有一个在月球这个白痴选区对你我喜欢的行星阴谋

Well, he knew exactly who to blame 嗯，他清楚地知道是谁的错

And we call upon the author to explain 我们呼吁撰文解释

   

Prolix! Prolix! Nothing a pair of scissors can't fix! 冗长！冗长！没有剪刀无法修复！

Prolix! Prolix! Nothing a pair of scissors can't fix! 冗长！冗长！没有剪刀无法修复！

   

Well, I go guruing down the street, young people gather round my feet 好了，我走了guruing在大街上，年轻人围着我的脚

Ask me things, but I don'r know where to start 问我的事情，但我donr知道从哪里开始

They ignite the power-trail ssstraight to my father's heart 他们点燃电步道ssstraight我父亲的心脏

And once again I call upon the author to explain 而我再次呼吁作者解释

   

We call upon the author to explain 我们呼吁撰文解释

   

Who is this great burdensome slavering dog-thing that mediocres my every thought? 这是谁的大累赘口水的狗东西， mediocres我的每一个想法？

I feel like a vacuum cleaner, a complete sucker, it's fucked up and he is a fucker 我觉得自己像个吸尘器，一个完整的吸盘，它搞砸了，他是一个笨蛋

But what an enormous and encyclopaedic brain 但是，一个巨大的和广博的大脑

I call upon the author to explain 我呼吁撰文解释

   

Oh rampant discrimination, mass poverty, third world debt, infectious diseease 哦猖獗的歧视，大规模的贫困，第三世界债务，传染性diseease

Global inequality and deepening socio-economic divisions 全球不平等和深化社会经济部门

Well, it does in your brain 那么，它在你的大脑

And we call upon the author to explain 我们呼吁撰文解释

   

Now hang on, my friend Doug is tapping on the window (Hey Doug, how you been?) 现在挂在我的朋友道格被窃听的窗口（嘿道格，你怎么了？ ）

Brings me back a book on holocaust poetry complete with pictures 将我带回了一本有关纳粹大屠杀的诗配有图片

Then tells me to get ready for the rain 然后告诉我准备好雨

And we call upon the author to explain 我们呼吁撰文解释

   

I say prolix! Prolix! Something a pair of scissors can fix 我说冗长！冗长！东西一把剪刀可以解决

   

Bukowski was a jerk! Berryman was best! 布考斯基是个混蛋！贝里曼是最好的！

He wrote like wet papier mache, went the Heming-way weirdly on wings and with maximum pain 他写了像湿纸型，走到鹤鸣路古怪的翅膀，最大的痛苦

We call upon the author to explain 我们呼吁撰文解释

   

Down in my bolthole I see they've published another volume of unreconstructed rubbish 记下我螺孔我看到他们已经发布的未经改造的垃圾另一个卷

"The waves, the waves were soldiers moving". Well, thank you, thank you, thank you “长江后浪，浪是士兵感动” 。好了，谢谢你，谢谢你，谢谢你

And again I call upon the author to explain 我再次呼吁撰文解释

Yeah, we call upon the author to explain 是啊，我们呼吁作者解释

   

Prolix! Prolix! There's nothing a pair of scissors can't fix! 冗长！冗长！没有什么剪刀无法修复！