Do you dare stay out?
Do you dare go in?
How much can you lose?
How much can you win?
And if you go in, should you turn left or right?
Or right and there-quarters?
Or maybe not quite?
You can get so confused…that you’ll start in to race…
down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace…
and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space…
headed i fear towards a most useless place…the waiting place.
For people just waiting.
Waiting for a train to go, or for a bus to come, or a plane to go
, or the mail to come, or the rain to go, or the phone to ring
, or the snow to snow, or waiting around for a yes or a no
, or a string of pearls, or a pair of pants, or a wig with curls
, or another chance
Waiting for the fish to bite
or waiting for wind to fly a kite
or waiting around for Friday night
or waiting, perhaps, for uncle Jake
or a pot to boil, or a Better Break
or a string of pearls, or a pair of pants
or a wig of curls, or Another Chance.
Everyone is just waiting.
Theodor Seuss Geisel
你敢後退嗎 你敢向前嗎 你輸得起多少 你贏得了多少 假如你前進了 應該向左還是向右 還是往右偏四分之三 或也許不用這麼多 你頭腦只有一片困惑 跳上一條彎彎的小路 使勁地跑 以為堅定無疑地跑了很遠 沿路景物古怪又可笑 我怕你會一頭栽進一個最無聊的地方 一個叫做等待的地方 在那裡人們沒完沒了的等 等著火車駛去 等著公車開來 等著飛機起飛 等著郵件寄到 等著雨停 等著電話響 等著雪花紛飛 等著一個答案 等著一串珠寶或一條褲子 或等著一頭波浪般的捲髮 或等著下一個機會飛黃騰達
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