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Kafka

卡夫卡

In the western vocabulary

在西方的词汇中

Kafka was once an icy cobblestone

卡夫卡曾是一块冰冷的鹅卵石

sank solitary on the seabed

它沉在海底

Appealing to the least attention all the way


一直无人问津

Not Until contemporary

直到当代

Did he float out of the surface of water

这块石头才自己浮出水面

But Only I can tell

只有我明白

Plato once stood at the seaside

柏拉图曾站在海边

Casting heaps of stones into the sea

把堆成山的石头丢进海里

it among them

它就是其中的一块

But it had to float out after all

它终究要浮出来

All thrown to the sea by Plato

凡是柏拉图丢进海里的


Were expected to emerge eventaully

都会被找到