Day 8: Alone at Lidl
第八天：独行利多
Write a poem full of social distance.
| English | 中文 |
|---|---|
| I wonder why | 我想知道 |
| We don’t look at each other anymore | 大家为何不再看彼此一眼 |
| Pushing our shopping carts | 推挤着购物车 |
| past each other | 经 过 彼此 |
| We stare resolutely ahead | 我们盯着远处 |
| Or find a particularly eye-catching | 或是发现了特别抢眼的 |
| bunch | 一 |
| of | 束 |
| bananas to investigate | 香蕉用来观察 |
| Maybe we are scared | 也许我们都害怕 |
| That this small human interaction might be enough | 人与人之间小小的互动就足以 |
| To contaminate uswithcloseness | 让对方染病 |
| Twometresdisappearoverthemeetingofeyes | 一旦对视两米的社交距离就会凭空消失 |
| Or maybe we cannot bear it | 或许我们无法忍受 |
| It hurts too much to see and not touch, not hug, not hold | 见到彼此，却无法碰触，拥抱，握手 |
| Today I am resolved to look. | 今天，我决定去看。 |
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Last modified on 2020-03-31