is only a sequel, after all,
and the book of events
is always open halfway through.
每個開始
畢竟都只是續篇，
而充滿情節的書本
總是從一半開始。
PossibilitiesI prefer the cinema.
I prefer cats.
I prefer oak-trees by the <place w:st="on">Warta</place> .
I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky.
I prefer myself liking humans
to myself loving humanity.
I prefer having a thread with a needle close at hand.
I prefer green.
I prefer not claiming that
the intellect should be blamed for everything.
I pefer exceptions.
I prefer leaving before.
I prefer talking to doctors about something else.
I prefer old marked illustrations.
I prefer being laughable because of writing poems
to being laughable because of not writing them.
I prefer odd anniversaries in love life,
to be celebrated every day.
I prefer moralists
who do not promise me anything.
I prefer calculated goodness to goodness that is too gullible.
I prefer the earth in civvy street.
I prefer conquered countries to the conquering ones.
I prefer having my objections.
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
I prefer Grimm tales to the first pages of newspapers.
I prefer leaves without flowers to flowers without leaves.
I prefer dogs with their tails unclipped.
I prefer fair eyes since mine are dark.
I prefer drawers.
I prefer many things I have not listed above
to many others unlisted here.
I prefer noughts that are loose
to those queueing for a digit.
I prefer insect time to stellar time.
I prefer touching wood.
I prefer not asking how much longer and when.
I prefer considering even such a possibility
that existence has its reasons.
--Wisława Szymborska
種種可能
我偏愛貓。
我偏愛狄更斯更勝過杜思妥也夫斯基。
我偏愛我對人群的喜歡
勝過我對人類的愛。
我偏愛在手邊擺放針線，以備不時之需。
我偏愛綠色。
我偏愛不抱持把一切都歸咎於理性的想法。
我偏愛例外。
我偏愛及早離去。
我偏愛和醫生聊些別的話題。
我偏愛線條細緻的老式插畫。
我偏愛寫詩的荒謬
勝過不寫詩的荒謬。
我偏愛，就愛情而言，可以天天慶祝的
不特定紀念日。
我偏愛不向我做任何
承諾的道德家。
我偏愛狡猾的仁慈勝過過度可信的那種。
我偏愛穿便服的地球。
我偏愛被征服的國家勝過征服者。
我偏愛有些保留。
我偏愛混亂的地獄勝過秩序井然的地獄。
我偏愛格林童話勝過報紙頭版。
我偏愛不開花的葉子勝過不長葉子的花。
我偏愛尾巴沒被截短的狗。
我偏愛淡色的眼睛，因為我是黑眼珠。
我偏愛書桌的抽屜。
我偏愛許多此處未提及的事物
勝過許多我也沒有說到的事物。
我偏愛自由無拘的零
勝過排列在阿拉伯數字後面的零。
我偏愛昆蟲的時間勝過星星的時間。
我偏愛敲擊木頭。
我偏愛不去問還要多久或什麼時候。
我偏愛牢記此一可能—
存在的理由不假外求。
--中譯：陳黎、張芬齡
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