那个年轻人独自行走，快但不够快，远，但远远不够{面对看不见，谈论痕迹变成破烂的废料，脚步声在小巷里take脚}；他必须赶上最后一条地铁，有轨电车，公共汽车，跑上所有汽船的黑帮，在所有酒店注册，在城市工作，回答各种货物，学习交易，从事交易，从事工作，生活在所有寄宿房中，睡在所有床上。一张床还不够，一份工作还不够，一生还不够。到了晚上，他独自一人独自一人游泳。
(The young man walks by himself, fast but not fast enough, far but not far enough {faces slide out of sight, talk trails into tattered scraps, footsteps tap fainter in alleys}; he must catch the last subway, the streetcar, the bus, run up the gangplanks of all the steamboats, register at all the hotels, work in the cities, answer the wantads, learn the trades, take up the jobs, live in all the boardinghouses, sleep in all the beds. One bed is not enough, one job is not enough, one life is not enough. At night, head swimming with wants, he walks by himself alone.)