早安,晚安
[波多黎各] 林-曼纽尔·米兰达 著 [加] 乔尼·孙 绘
For you, holding this
致拿着本书的你 图片 图片 Introduction
I wanted to wish you good morning.
I wanted to wish you good night.
I started to write these on Twitter,
A way of just being polite.
I’m really quite hooked on the Twitter,
They should take my phone out and lock it.
The biggest distraction for someone like me?
An audience up in my pocket.
So I start the day with a greeting.
And I end with a night variation.
It safeguards my evenings and weekends at home,
To sign off, a mini-vacation.
The greetings are sometimes flirtatious,
Or cheeky, or weirdly specific.
They’re pulled from my life or my brain or my thoughts,
Terrific’ly Twitter prolific.
I don’t have a book of quotations
Or wisdom I pull from the shelf;
Most often the greetings I wish you
Are the greetings I wish for myself.
So if I…