Remember：I said to Hai Hai
当野菜变成美食？变成
When wild herbs become a rare delicacy
您和您的媚狐诗友们聚餐时
And a scenery when you and your poet friends
爬在食谱上一道风景的时候
gather together at the table
社会就不是进化？而是退化了
The society is not evolving but degrading
退化到？人开始任意阉割自然？
To the period when people castrate nature casually，
开始回归并遭到自然报复的阶段
return to nature and get revenge from nature
这时的您别忘记？除了日本的卡通
Please do not forget besides cartoons from Japan
韩国的烧烤？华尔街的金融风暴
Barbecue from Korea Financial storm on Wall Street
还有柴？米？油？盐？奶？
There is firewood，rice，oil，soil and milk
还有？你们是早上八九点钟的太阳
And you，the sun in the early morning
别忘了这个国度？和
Do not forget the nation And
这个灯红酒绿的空间
The luxury city with bright lights and feasting
是一部份人抛头卢撒热血
Built on the blood of our heroes
一部份人摸着石头趟过来的
And on the millions of experiences of our forefathers
这是一个？除了索取
This is the time of devotion
更需要奉献的时代
Besides demanding
是一个需要每一个人
This is the time of things being done quietly
都默默的做一些事情
By everyone
而不需要整个社会都知道的时代
Rather than making a song about everything
比如做义工？做志愿者
Such as being a volunteer
闲暇时去福利院看看老人
Taking care of the elderly in one’s spare time
朋友或同学一旦有个头疼脑热的
Of friends or classmates who suffer even slight illness
给她递去一杯水？一片小小的苹果
Handing over a glass of water or a piece of apple
哪怕是送上一句关心？体贴的话
Even just some simple considerate words
当然更不要忘记常回家看看
Surely do not forget to go home
常回家看看常回家看看
Going to your parents’home
常回家看看亲爱的爸爸妈妈
Go and visit them to see
你们都好吗
How they are doing
当野菜已经不是野草
When wild herbs are not what they are
当野草已经变成野菜的时候
Or when wild herbs are what they are
我对海海说？野菜在你的诗里
I told Hai Hai the wild herbs in your poems
再也不是万恶的旧社会
Are no more the symbols
不是？三年自然灾害和你的先人
For wicked old society
绝望的拖家带口闯关东时的苦涩？
Nor the pained food when your forefathers made a desperate journey to the northeast with the whole family
进入你诗歌的野菜
The wild herbs in your poems
阴？会有一个瑭潢的塑料大棚为她遮雨
There is a grand plastic greenhouse protecting them from the rain in cloud days
晴？会有一个宏伟的无土车间给她避阳
There is a great soilless department covering them from the sun in sunny days
那时你的诗歌？将会出现
In your poem there will be
歌颂面包和香肠的奇特意境
The exotic suggestion by singing songs in exchange for bread and sausage
出现？歌颂你的小情哥哥那样的一些
Appearing unusual languages by extolling your lover
不可名状的语言？因为？因为你已经
All of this because you are entering a new era
进入了一个？以吃野菜为荣的时代
A period when people are proud of eating wild herbs
以用美元为荣的时代（那时不仅你的国家
A period when people are proud of US dollars （not only your
以有巨额的美元储备而牛视世界
country can be a superpower with a huge amount of dollar reserves，
你也因有为数不多的美元储蓄而牛视姐妹）
but also you can be very proud of a little dollar in your pocket）
我是说？当人重新认识野草和野菜的功能的时候
What I am trying to say is that when people see the wild herbs in a new look
人？对自然的索取
Human’s demands upon nature
已经陷入一种无序
Are already in a disorder way
你要记住？那时诸如三聚氰胺
Do not forget the chemical products such as melamine
敌敌畏？雌性激素等等个性很强的化学产品
DDVP Estrogen hormone and some other poison products
可能会象地下工作者一样
Which probably act like the undercover workers
已经通过野菜或野草的美味
Hiding themselves under the delicacy
潜入了所有奶牛的乳房？水产品的体内
Sneaking in the udder of the dairy cow and seafood products
潜入？你和你所有熟悉或不熟悉的人的体内
Into the bodies of people you know or you do not
那时的三鹿？蒙牛？伊利等我们
Sanlu，Mongolian Cow，Yili and other dairy products
引以为自豪的民族食品制造业的巨头的良心
Their proud and consciousness for being the giants of national food manufacture
可能早就被那只疯狂的追逐利润的狗吃掉了
This is swallowed by the crazy dog keeping eyes on the profits
那时我们的国家就可能会出现？信任危机
By then in our country there will be a crisis of confidence
那时我们将要面对的就不仅仅是对付几个
By then what we are confronting is not just a couple of
以生产地沟油来骗几个小钱的那帮？
Peddlers who produce waste oils cheating customers
小打小闹的小贩子
Doing small business
那时你就知道什么叫信仰危机
You will know what called “confidence crisis”
而导致的信任危机
Cause to “confidence crisis”
什么叫道德沦丧人人自危
What is everyone feels insecure in moral bankruptcy
什么叫早上八九点钟的太阳了
What is the sun in the early morning
2008．10．14．河北·廊坊
（Translated by Li Meng &；Hu Zongfeng）
