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第5章 Contrast

Purposeless is what I am

All too suddenly the sun appears behind my back

Carrying evil forebodings of some kind of danger

I can see the other half of myself

Shuttling through the space above the evening and the time,

Sucking in the cool shade of the buckwheat;

I can see that my hands are not with me

But are holding up ossified flowers

In the dark depths of the earth

Allowing my tribesmen in ritual

To summon up the spirits of our forefathers

I can see a wall aging in the sunshine

All the aphorisms buried in wine;

I can see a singer, with his tongue flickering with fire,

Searching for surrealistic soils

As the rhythms of music creep and cover the sheepskins

I am not where I am, because I have another self

Who is heading in the opposite direction