【EN】Gogyoka “Baptized“
By Senon Wakamiya【EN】
Gogyoka 151
From the TV
it yells at me
“what are you looking at?”
I answer back
“nothing, idiot”
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Gogyoka 152
White Day
you’re getting carried away
Delvecchio
it flies, it flies
in a fake Shimane
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Gogyoka 153
My name is
Maetel
on a Tanabata strip
I wrote all the way through
“I want to become a bird”
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Gogyoka 154
Left waiting
I’ve got no place to stay
seventeen
no souvenirs either
a doppelganger
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Gogyoka 155
My name is
Maetel
just a stiff shoulder
yet I insist
it’s a complicated fracture
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Gogyoka 156
Dying by the roadside
in a dumped mood
Delvecchio
“where am I?”
in a fake Shimane
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Gogyoka 157
If I
am not happy
then the world’s happiness
cannot exist
that’s my pride
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Gogyoka 158
Crying myself to sleep
with a rock’n’roll
pigeon
missing my chance to marry
Rio de Janeiro
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Gogyoka 159
A bright red rose
and a white pansy
next to the puppy, Tanaka
Tanaka
I want Tanaka there
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Gogyoka 160
That’s enough
can’t go back home
playing hooky
with a forced smile
the ghost of a beat
Gogyoka 161
It’s fine
that kind of thing
whatever
you and I
are just illusions
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Gogyoka 162
In an illusory
dead-end street
visiting a grave
with a forced smile
Tokyo Tower
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Gogyoka 163
It hurts
yeah, it does
but I’m fine
because after all
everything is an illusion
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Gogyoka 164
A pigeon is there
doing the robot dance
dying by the roadside
seriously falling in love
Okuhida longing
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Gogyoka 165
Inside you
something like
Kannon or a bodhisattva
I feel like
I might have seen it
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Gogyoka 166
Dying by the roadside
you and me
Venezuela
a melon sigh
a failed perm
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Gogyoka 167
The more hopeless
a poem is
the more I want to translate it
so people overseas
can see it
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Gogyoka 168
Delvecchio
take me skiing
stripped of everything
rain falling
on roses
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Gogyoka 169
I’ve never
had a good goodbye
but in its own way
that too
feels like a miracle
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Gogyoka 170
With a smug face
fire shooting from my ass
visiting a grave
attacked by crows
Okuhida longing
All of my gogyouka, including those written so far, are completely free to quote.
If you find a poem you like, I would be very happy if you quote it and share it.
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Senon Wakamiya is moving from detachment to commitment.
I warmly welcome your thoughts and impressions. Thank you very much.
若宮せのん Senon Wakamiya
SENON ARCHIVE -まとめのまとめ-
Contents (EN)
① Gogyouka (Five-Line Poems)
② Transformation Begins in the Body (walking / meals / notebook)
③ Sergei (dialogue series)
④ Dialogues & Inner Comedy
⑤ Declaration / Meta
Index (EN):
GOGYŌKA-EN
他言語版 / Other languages
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