生活就这样维持下去-加里 · 索托-风火海、阿熊联读-170

生活就这样维持下去今天我们花二十块钱就可以生活。五块买一个垒球。四块买一本书，一把一块的硬币换来咖啡和两个甜面包卷，车票，还有给你妈妈的小提琴上的松香。我们的任务还没完成。我留给服务员的小费像雨水一样过滤下来，滋润一个孩童或是一只不到有鸡肉吃的时候就不放开袜子球的好斗猫咪的幼嫩的根。据我所知，女儿，生活就这样运转：你在百货店买面包，在水果店买一袋苹果，你花出去的硬币就帮别人买了铅笔、胶水、电影票，那部电影叫他们发笑。如果我们买一条金鱼，就有人可以试一顶帽子。我们买蜡笔，就有人可以在回家路上添一把扫把。一笔小费，这里那里买一点东西，大家的生活就这样维持下去。我想是这样吧。作者 / ［美］ 加里 · 索托翻译 / 刘宛妮How Things WorkToday it’s going to cost us twenty dollars To live. Five for a softball. Four for a book, A handful of ones for coffee and two sweet rolls, Bus fare, rosin for your mother’s violin. We’re completing our task. The tip I left For the waitress filters down Like rain, wetting the new roots of a child Perhaps, a belligerent cat that won’t let go Of a balled sock until there’s chicken to eat. As far as I can tell, daughter, it works like this: You buy bread from a grocery, a bag of apples From a fruit stand, and what coins Are passed on helps others buy pencils, glue, Tickets to a movie in which laughter Is thrown into their faces. If we buy a goldfish, someone tries on a hat. If we buy crayons, someone walks home with a broom. A tip, a small purchase here and there, And things just keep going. I guess.Gary Soto 朗读 / 风火海、阿熊 制作 / 楚雨庭 配乐 / Pink Floyd - Money 出品 / 读首诗再睡觉（dushoushizaishuijiao）