Adrian Henri - Tonight at Noon 汉译

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Supermarkets will advertise 3d EXTRA on everything

Tonight at noon

Children from happy families will be sent to live in a home

Elephants will declare peace on Russia

World War I generals will sell poppies in the streets on November 11^th

The first daffodils of autumn will appear

When the leaves fall upwards to the trees

 

Tonight at noon

Pigeons will hunt cats through city backyards

Hitler will tell us to fight on the beaches and on the landing fields

A tunnel full of water will be built under Liverpool

Pigs will be sighted flying in formation over Woolton

and Nelson will not only get his eye back but his arm as well

White Americans will demonstrate for equal rights

in front of the Black House

and the Monster has just created Dr Frankenstein

 

Girls in bikinis are moonbathing

Folksongs are being sung by real folk

Artgalleries are closed to people over 21

Poets get their poems in the Top 20.

Politicians are elected to insane asylums

There’s jobs for everyone and nobody wants them

In back alleys everywhere teenage lovers are kissing

in broad daylight

In forgotten graveyards everywhere the dead will quietly

Bury the living

and

You will tell me you love me

Tonight at noon

 

                                                                                    1968