COMMUNICATIVE TIMES No.11 Spring 2004 John Pereira (Editor), Dr. Simon Potter (Associate Editor) Prof. Komei Go (Associate Editor; Kyoto Seika University), Toto Akeru (Art Director)

POESSAYS

POESSAYS West Meets East and Aristotle Meets Basho These little things are not poetry but a simple marriage of the poem and essay forms Poessays in fact are opinions expressed poetically 　　　　　　Editors

Who Is He? I was walking with my friend when we met a man How are you? the man asked Fine thank you and you? my friend said

Fine thank you said he and moved on Who is he? I asked my friend I don't know my friend replied Satoshi Yamada

Flattery I thought the old man was eighty so I said You look seventy He was in fact sixty Kouko Inada

Science Class In the elementary school science class the teacher asked What happens when snow melts? Spring has come my friend said Yuri Shimoda

Stone Two men in a park found a tiny dirty stone One man said this stone is valuable the other laughed and said it is useless But it was a diamond Shuuhei Orito

Gardening When we moved into our new house my mother said I want a garden and at once she started planting flowers and flowers and more flowers and now our garden is a jungle Kayoko Takada

Tourists My friend and I went to an animal show Oh that lamb is so cute! said my friend later that night while eating dinner she said This mutton chop is really delicious! Erina Tsunemoto

Hot Father likes to make coffee and he makes coffee for us every morning it isn't delicious but we say delicious to him every morning Kyoko Murakami

Early Bird I like going to college early in the morning Noboday is there and the whispering wind and my heartbeat in tune Hisako Takahashi

Language I don't like studying English although recently I'm studying hard for my boyfriend as this is our common language What language will I study next? Kumi Murata

Living Alone My brother came home the other day and said I enjoy living alone but his socks were of two different colors one was blue and the other black Etsumi Katsube

Easy I saw my friend practicing on her unicycle and I thought it was easy and I could do it but I couldn't Mayumi Higuchi

U Class Students come to class the teacher is there time passes some students leave the classroom the teacher says nothing Kunio Yuasa

Paradox You're clever says my mother but you don't study I study hard but my test scores don't go up I believe my mother is right but Tsukasa Komatani

Happosai We're in a restaurant and I say this tastes like mud Have you ever eaten mud? asks my friend Yuka Manno

Hair Salon My hair falls down the hair color is brown it was black before Have I changed? Issei Matsuda

Friends While eating okonomiyaki I looked at my friend's front tooth and saw a piece of seaweed stuck to it I didn't say anything

At home looking into a mirror I noticed a piece of seaweed stuck to my front tooth Mizuho Hayashi

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POEMS

High Jump pole vaulting higher and higher into the air I'm a bird Tsunehiro Nakamura

Good Morning woke up at noon half a day gone Akira Kashitani

Two Worlds Lecture time 22 hours a week and my part-time job 44 hours a week What am I? a student? or a worker? Yumi Ideno

Rich or Poor? Cattle catch disease Don't eat beef people say Chickens have the flu Don't eat chicken we're told Japan isn't a poor country but all the same food is decreasing Ayako Maegawa

C'est La Vie Last year my friend died in a car accident and we were all shocked My friend cried Last month she got married and now has a baby Chiharu Sogo

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