Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Kuroda Saburo --"I Am Completely Different" (poem)
I Am Completely Different
I am completely different.
Though I am wearing the same tie as yesterday,
am as poor as yesterday,
as good for nothing as yesterday,
today
I am completely different.
Though I am wearing the same clothes,
am as drunk as yesterday,
living as clumsily as yesterday, nevertheless
today
I am completely different.
Ah ...
I patiently close my eyes
on all the grins and smirks
on all the twisted smiles and horse laughs---
and glimpse then, inside me
one beautiful white butterfly
fluttering towards tomorrow.
~ Kuroda Saburo ~
(translated by James Kirkup, Burning Girraffes: Modern and Contemporary Japanese Poetry)
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