在咖啡馆吃饭的人
不担心营养。
他们无挂虑的点烤奶酪三明治，
继之以奶油巧克力蛋和熟石膏样的
楔形柠檬酥皮饼派
他们无视父母，牙医，医疗人员到处盘旋的警告
而是突然立刻拿出牙线。
他们可以生活在有家具的房间里无论什么时候他们都想出去
吃闪着釉光的甜甜圈喝着数不清的咖啡，
把他们的雪茄烟熄灭在邋遢的茶碟中。
People who eat in coffee shops
are not worried about nutrition.
They order the toasted cheese sandwiches blithely,
followed by chocolate egg creams and plaster of paris
wedges of lemon meringue pie.
They don't have parental, dental, or medical figures hovering
full of warnings, or whip out dental floss immediately.
They can live in furnished rooms and whenever they want
go out and eat glazed donuts along with innumerable coffees,
dousing their cigarettes in sloppy saucers.
"People Who Eat in Coffee Shops" by Edward Field, from Counting Myself Lucky. © Black Sparrow Press, 1992. Reprinted with permission.
