铭记在心的--约翰.马丁

一头熊满草地的追逐我
我尽可能快地跑但
他就要赶上我--好像
他总能追上我。
我跑啊，跑啊而且想着
我应该马上转身，说，
“别这样！停止追赶我。我们两个
都知道你不打算抓我。
所有你能做的总是追我。所以，
想想看--为何总缠着我？”

熊确实停下了，
他坐下来，思考，
或似乎在思考。然后
这只熊对我说，
"我得追你，你知道的。
或者你应该知道。并且，确信，
我们两个都知道我永远不抓你。
所以，为什么不放我们俩一马呢
行的，那就别再想我？

但，按照他说的，他收回四只脚，
突然伸出他长长的粉红色舌头，舔着
他熊嘴的两边。接着他叹息，向
自己身后看去，然后看着我，说，“可以了吗
准备好了就开始”
A bear is chasing me through a meadow
and I’m running as fast as I can but
he’s gaining on me—it seems
he’s always gaining on me.
I’m running and running but also
thinking I should just
turn around and say,
“Stop it! Stop chasing me. We both
know you aren’t going to catch me.
All you can ever do is chase me. So,
think about it—why bother?”

The bear does stop,
and he sits on his haunches and thinks,
or seems to think. And then
the bear says to me,
“I have to chase you, you know
that. Or you should. And, sure,
we both know I’ll never catch you.
So, why not give us both a break and
just stop thinking about me?”

But, with that said, he gets back on four feet,
sticks his long pink tongue out, licks down
both sides of his snout. Then he sighs, looks
behind himself, then at me and says, “Okay,
ready when you are.”