minimal: TASTE (poem) - Shuntaro Tanikawa - Japan - Poetry International
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味
権威は
どこにも
ない
 
ただ
剥き出しの
性器が
 
立っている
凹んでいる
夜
 
既にかすかな
偽りの
味
TASTE
There is
no authority
anywhere
 
only
exposed
genitals

erect
concave
at night
 
There is already a subtle
taste
of deceit
© 2002, Shuntaro Tanikawa
From: minimal
Publisher: Shichosha, Tokyo, 2002, 4783713235
 
 
 
 
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© Translation: 2011, Takako U. Lento
From: The Art of Being Alone: Poems 1952-2009
Publisher: Cornell University, Ithica, New York, 2011, 1050-2955