local_library Kiran Bhat – Plato Asks

by Kiran Bhat

Published in Issue No. 289 ~ June, 2021
 

柏拉图问:你想成为哲人吗?

柏拉图问:你想成为哲人吗?

客燃脑回答: 不要了,我只想对自己保持真诚。

孔子问:

你想模仿我?

客燃脑回答:不会,

我没有那么难看的胡子。

杜勒西达斯问:

你没有自己的神为什么还如此渴 求真理?

客燃脑说:我不需要神来寻找真理,

我不瞎。

鲁米问:

就你这样的变态狂,

怎么可能找到真理 呢?

客燃脑说:

我变不变态这无关紧要。

我睡过很多 男人,

剖析他们的大脑,

然后扔掉。

如果有人说你变态,

你不妨挤挤眼。

若是有人说我变态,

我就请他们脱掉裤子。

维亚萨问:你生活没有目标,

思想怎么会成长?

客燃脑说:

好比你欣赏一支舞蹈,

不可能分析每 个舞步。

但当舞蹈跳完,

你会觉得它很美妙。

伏尔泰问:

你代表美国还是印度?

客燃脑说:都不代表。

长期旅居世界各地的我,

永远代表着下一个目的 地。

还有很多哲人的问题,

但时间太少。

客燃脑结论说:

我不是哲人我好色、

肤浅。

比起哲人,

我更高兴做一个婊子。

但我感到我必须写下来,

因此我写了下来 。

Plato asks; Do you want to be a philosopher?

Plato asks; Do you want to be a philosopher?

Kiran says; Not really, I want to just be honest to myself.

Confucius asks; Are you imitating me?

Kiran says; It’s not possible, I will never have such an ugly beard.

Tulsidas asks; Why do you yearn for the truth when you don’t know God?

Kiran says; I don’t need God to find the truth.

I am not blind.

Rumi says; You are such a heathen. How does it help you find the truth?

Kiran says; It doesn’t matter whether I am a heathen or not. I sleep with many men, analyze their brains, and throw them out when I am done.

If someone called you a heathen, you might blink.

If someone called me a heathen,

I would invite them to take off their pants.

Vyasa asks; If you live a life without purpose, how can your mind grow?

Kiran says; While watching a dance, you cannot analyze every step,

but after the dance is finished, you are uplifted.

Voltaire asks; Do you represent the USA or India?

Kiran says; Neither. After so much time living all over the world, I represent what is to come next.

There are still many philosophers to answer but little time.

Kiran concludes:

I am not a philosopher.

I am horny, I am superficial.

I would be a much happier whore than a philosopher.

But I feel the pressure to write,

And so I write.

 

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Kiran Bhat is a global citizen formed in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, to parents from Southern Karnataka, in India. He has currently traveled to over 130 countries, lived in 18 different places, and speaks 12 languages. He is primarily known as the author of we of the forsaken world... (Iguana Books, 2020), but he has authored books in four foreign languages, and has had his writing published in The Kenyon Review, The Brooklyn Rail, The Colorado Review, Eclectica, 3AM Magazine, The Radical Art Review, The Chakkar, Mascara Literary Review, and several other places. His list of homes is vast, but his heart and spirit always remains in Mumbai, somehow. He currently lives in Melbourne. You can find him on @Weltgeist Kiran.