Karen Kun’s Translation #9 - from Kerri Shying R’s “the franchise men”

特許經營男

你

剛出生的幺四

這女孩

與上一個

你不曾見面的孩子

小九個月

兩個母親

病房裡踱步

唸著同樣的對白

同樣的病房

同一個鎮

同一幫護士 在照看

讓今天這女孩

活著

讓她逃離

飛到更安全的土地

在那地方

沒有讓你酸疼的群交

父親 會愛孩子

會倍孩子玩

新媽媽

現在  趕快

情趣內衣  穿起來

不然

小三那邊

很快要 蹦出一個

重疊的小孩

the franchise men

there you are

 the birth

of this fourth one

of your children

the last baby

you don’t see

under 9 months older

 than this girl

here   the mothers

 overlap

the same words   that were spoken

then    hang around the wards

same wards

same town

same nurses

watching over the day

today she came to be

this girl   let her live and

let her leave it

far behind  let her

 fly away to safer lands

where fathers play they

stay with children love them

no matter what   you say

  so the group sex was off the

table

it made you sour    then

now

 this piece of the triangle

new minted mother

best get the teddy on

or little girl

here   may

overlap again