本期主播: 筱思 本期文章：Missing You 录制地点：北京 天津爆炸，陕西山阳泥石流山体滑坡，北京三里屯砍人事件….生命的戛然而止总会让人忍不住唏嘘感慨，明天和意外，不知道哪个会先到来。或许，我们能想到最踏实的温暖，就是在末日之前遇见你，能让我为爱所累，甘之如饴；身心俱疲，死得其所。 今天，筱思想要读给大家的是一首来自英国诗人Penelope Shuttle的诗Missing You，诗人以第一人称的口吻诉说了自己对已故爱人深深的思念之情。全诗共21小节，文字质朴，感情真挚，每句表白都温柔有力，直戳泪点。筱思节选其中的8小节送给大家，希望各位喜欢。 Missing you By Penelope Shuttle 1. This year no-one will ask how you voted, or if you know the way to town No-one will call you as an eye-witness or teach you how to train a bird of prey No-one will bring you your New Scientist, try to sell you double-glazing or tell you their secrets People will write to you but you won’t answer their letters The high sheriff of mistletoe will never catch your eye again No-one will peel apples for you, or love you more than you can bear No-one will forget you 2 I wept in Tesco, Sainsburys and in Boots where they gave me medicine for grief But I wept in Asda, in Woolworths and in the library where they gave me books on grief I wept in Clarks looking in vain for shoes that would stop me weeping I wept on the peace March and all through the war I wept in Superdrug where they gave me a free box of tissues I wept in the churches, the empty empty churches, and in the House of Commons – they voted me out of office 3 I can’t cry anyone’s tears except my own, can’t teach anything but my own ignorance I can only fall from my own mountain, ledge by ledge I can’t rival the wasp’s sting or sew except with my needle Like a saltwater wife, I prise open the oyster of my loss, hoick out the pearl of your death 10 I make my home in your absence, take your smallest hope and make it grow I wake to the dusk of everywhere as if assisting at my own birth or arriving in a country where all the rivers settle down to be ice 11 World was one word I could not guess it World was one gesture I could not copy it World was one question I couldn’t answer it World was one song How could I sing it? World was one forest I couldn’t fell it World was one bridge How was I to cross it? 16 Think of me as a small backward country appealing for aid from the far-off first world Imagine the dirt of my shrines, the riddle of my dry rivers, the jinx of my cities When you hold the full purse of Autumn or celebrate the nativity of a pear, picture me as the hawk of Spring, a one-pupil school, the safe-keeper of sunrise Think of me without you, stuck here forever between rainless May and the drought of June 17 Your name didn’t change after your death – many others also answered to it After your death the climate didn’t change, the government stayed calm Waterfalls remembered you forever, remaining loyal, looking for you everywhere, storm after storm, teacup after teacup 21 I’ve lived with your death for a year, that despot death, that realist, stunned, as if I’ve just given birth to a foal, or made an enemy of the rain All at once you had more important things to do than to live Death is the feather in your cap, the source of your fame, my darkest lesson This dropout year closes, I begin my second year without you, just me and the paper-thin world. 垫乐： David Davidson - And I Love You So David Davidson - A Time For Us Between Worlds 主播：筱思；制作: 潇雨；发行：永清 文字及垫乐归作者或版权方所有 图片源于网络 为你读英语美文，Read English for You 微信公众号：为你读英语美文 官方新浪微博：@为你读英语美文 荔枝FM 搜索【为你读英语美文】收听