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“这首诗是著名报纸记者唐·马奎斯（Don Marquis）写的。除了史诗般的新闻文章，他还喜欢写诗。他从他创造的蟑螂角色“archy”的角度写了几首诗。它住在他的办公室里，据说下班后会偷偷溜出去，在他的打字机上跳来跳去，写一些有见地的文学作品。由于他仅限于跳跃（蟑螂很小），archy无法使用任何标点符号或大写字母，导致以一种非常酷的意识流写作风格。” （感谢 C.坎贝尔（ C. Campbell）

以下为该诗歌的内容，分享给读者朋友： 

the lesson of the moth

By Don Marquis, in “archy and mehitabel,” 1927

i was talking to a moth

the other evening

he was trying to break into

an electric light bulb

and fry himself on the wires

why do you fellows
pull this stunt i asked him
because it is the conventional
thing for moths or why
if that had been an uncovered
candle instead of an electric
light bulb you would
now be a small unsightly cinder
have you no sense

plenty of it he answered
but at times we get tired
of using it
we get bored with the routine
and crave beauty
and excitement
fire is beautiful
and we know that if we get
too close it will kill us
but what does that matter
it is better to be happy
for a moment
and be burned up with beauty
than to live a long time
and be bored all the while
so we wad all our life up
into one little roll
and then we shoot the roll
that is what life is for
it is better to be a part of beauty
for one instant and then cease to
exist than to exist forever
and never be a part of beauty
our attitude toward life
is come easy go easy
we are like human beings
used to be before they became
too civilized to enjoy themselves

and before i could argue him
out of his philosophy
he went and immolated himself
on a patent cigar lighter
i do not agree with him
myself i would rather have
half the happiness and twice
the longevity

but at the same time i wish
there was something i wanted
as badly as he wanted to fry himself

archy

杜晖贤（Frederick Charles Dubee），加拿大人，1942年4月29日出生于加拿大。现居住在芬兰。杜晖贤是联合国秘书处前高级参赞、中国生物多样性保护与绿色发展基金会国际工作专家顾问，全球契约办公室高级顾问、罗马俱乐部成员、罗马俱乐部中国委员会联合创始人、世界艺术与科学院院士华大基因顾问委员会/智库成员，华大基因机构审查委员会高级顾问。

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