Seasnake and Snapping Turtle
a poem by Toshiro Yakuza transl. by Niki-san
1.
Dodo perched on a bonsai tree
Told me this tale quite true,
Homing in on hush hush tryst
Fixed by phoneline yet tap free,
Caught a marked card in my crew
Mouthing my mistress' white wrist-
Star-miffed lovers, as you see,
Whom time more alike did hew,
Her lines greater aging grist.
2.
While my wife and I clapped Noh,
They ate fugu flaked on toast
As their all day brunch in bed;
While my wife and I were show,
Patting him stiff as a post,
Mistress made self out well bred,
Kicked off her silk kimono,
He banged on while clearing coast,
Surely felt joy, fielded dread.
3.
Godchild gave my boots set rub,
He ironed into shape set shirt,
He mopped set floors, brushed set flue;
Dodo talked of him in a tub:
"Seascape tattoos of krill and squirt,
Waikiki surf waves blue hues;
Water bobbed toy whale, toy sub,
Toaster, toy duck, all inert,
Bad hand beat high hand too loose."
4.
Racist west puts down through wails
Nipponese marine research,
Covers up mass deaths of krill,
Champions vicious chomping whales
Lolling trillion krill deep lurch-
Surly whales crunch them as swill-
Salting gay whales stem cells avails,
Chiller warehouse vats their church,
Goombah's scales read: stop krill kill!
5.
Cinders where his pinky sits
Foil he flunked on, fate he earned,
Fault absolved, by furnace charred,
Pass-port chopped up into chits,
Early by eyeglass discerned,
Airbrushed spare parts stared at hard.
Choice to get a second chance,
Funereal urn, museum mule,
Coaster hanuka card keeps
Live peculiar circumstance,
Heroin being a fossil fuel,
It tidies up where gall weeps.
6.
Primed to punish, then disown,
Bath slip bagged me sore rethink,
Whacked by philanthropic will;
Life I led I don't condone-
Check him through tax credit chink,
Physician's poof spermwhale bill;
Cue his second chance as clone-
She was thick, now come to think,
Tiresome mistress tossed until.
(Chorus)
o $10,000,000 think
o $10,000,000 cogitate
o $10,000,000 ponder
7.
Tail being paddle peter bend,
Black and white hide bands the rule,
Seasnake lives for dumb shake-down;
Carapace showing carefree mend,
Roving rubberneck old school,
Snapping turtle dies to drown;
Seasnake worries sick his friend
Snapping turtle sags too cool,
Takes him up for air near town.
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