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Thing of Novelty

from Syzygy by Eighpse

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Something novel just
for Novelty’s sake
Sacred as property
for a Poverty State
新たな何かを novel somethings
生み出したくて I am yearning to birth
新たな誰かさん novel someones
初めまして: have greet them all first:

....

誰も分かるわけ no one stands chance
どこにもない of understanding it, nowhere
どっちも嫌いなわけ neither one detested
どうして はない no whys in sight
特攻隊になる balding mid-life squardron
ハゲ 叔父さんの会 destined for Special Forces
災害を起こさずに cannot keep their hand off
いられないみたい faster disaster rudders
壊したいこと と some shit I yearn to break
消したい音、 some sounds I yearn to erase
歴史の失敗を trace historical defeat
平和の元に into the origin of peace
どこにもないって言った expressed into a song
歌に尽くす said to float inside of nowhere
首吊るす鶴の noose around the crane’s neck
罪を許す its sin forgiven
呟かされても even when confession
懺悔の恵み is mumbled, begets blessing,
韻の 陰部 踏みながら treading rhyme’s genitals
津波組  team tsunami
黒百合墨絵 black lily sumi-e
蕾を咲かす buds in blossom
くるみ割り人形 nutcracker body
の身を散らかす fractured, scattered,
バラバラ事件(dismemberment murder) の パラパラダンス(parapara dance)
Milano の ミイラ(mummy)
Roma の ロマンス(romance)
Morocco の ロココ(Rococo)
Sicily の 獅子(lion dog)
Barcelona の 女(mujer)
Valencia の 騎士(caballero)
同時代ゲームで contemporaneity games
負けても平気 I lose, it’s still cool
定期の不景気 periodic economic slump
誕生日会 で ケーキ birthday cake
フォークを持ち上げ、 lift fork,
差し込んでみると take a stab,
金属 に 当たる strike metal,
聖書のデビルの bible devil
伝統の変貌 genesis metamorphosis
を連想する鳩 its symbol is the dove
新たな何か novel something:
無人機の謎 drone enigma
新たな何かを novel somethings
生み出したくて dying to excavate
新たな誰かさん novel someones
初めまして: relations initiate:
新たな誰か novel someones
生み出したくて dying to excavate
新たな 革命: novel revolutions:
確定、落成 decided, consummated
Something novel just
for Novelty’s sake
Sacred as property
for a Poverty State

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(other verses available in the book Syzygy, by Jordan A. Y. Smith, from Awai Books 2020)

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from Syzygy, released December 26, 2020
D.Dahlinger track/production
art by Amano Yoshitaka

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Eighpse Tokyo, Japan

poet, performer, writer, translator, curator, creator, professor. author of Syzygy (2020). co-author Sea of Trees: Poetic Gateways to Aokigahara. co-author √IC: Redux. Editor-in-Chief of Tokyo Poetry Journal.

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