원문 A Martian Sends a Postcard Home

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A Martian Sends a Postcard Home by Craig Raine

Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings

and some are treasured for their markings-

they cause the eyes to melt

or the body to shriek without pain.

I have never seen one fly, but

sometimes they perch on the hand.

Mist is when the sky s tired of flight

and rests its soft machine on ground:

then the world is dim and bookish

like engravings under tissue paper.

Rain is when the earth is television.

It has the property of making colours darker.

Model T is a room with the lock inside-

a key is turned to free the world

for movement, so quick there is a film

to watch for anything missed.

But time is tied to the wrist

or kept in a box, ticking with impatience.

In homes, a haunted apparatus sleeps,

that snores when you pick it up.

If the ghost cries, they carry it

to their lips and soothe it to sleep

with sounds. And yet, they wake it up

deliberately, by tickling with a finger.

Only the young are allowed to suffer

openly. Adults go to a punishment room

with water but nothing to eat.

They lock the door and suffer the noises

alone. No one is exempt

and everyone's pain has a different smell.

At night, when all the colours die,

they hide in pairs

and read about themselves-

in colour, with their eyelids shut.

크레이그 레인은 코믹한 초현실주의적인 시를 썼다고 하네요..

이 시도 화성인의 시각에서 그려진 지구별 ㅋㅋ 의 모습인데..

참 재밌는 부분이 많은것 같아요.

특히 전 마지막에 화장실을 묘사한 부분이 넘 재밌습니다. ^^

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오늘 3연까지 읽었습니다.