COMMUNICATIVE TIMES No.12 Autumn 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

Advice My friend said in a loud voice There's a louse in your hair Please speak softly I think Then she said in a small voice

I'm sorry It's not a louse but lint Oh please say that loudly I think Kouko Inaba

So the Fish Got Away The frog dived into the old pond a man saw the show and made a beautiful haiku An angler also watching the show was angry at the frog

Hey there! Stop making a noise! You are scaring the fish! Satoshi Yamada

Email My mother sends me an email every day Good morning! Good night! When I don't notice the email She sends me three The last email said What's happened to you? Masae Umada

Oh My Dog! For my birthday Father gave me a dog He's named Leo! Every morning I walk Leo Mother doesn't walk Leo regularly but he likes Mother better! Tsukasa Komatani

Tabacco My father likes tobacco my mother doesn't Father has given up smoking Mother proudly tells us all One day I saw him smoking outside our house Naoya Adachi

Sister My sister always gets up late on school days She says I can't get up early! But when there is no school she has no problem Kana Itabashi

Plants I had a plant and I liked it a lot so I gave it a lot of water every day until it rotted away Tomoko Sasaki

In Fashion When I saw my friend wearing a pink sock on her right leg and a red sock on her left I pointed out her mistake It's in fashion she said Etsumi Katsube

My Family Father and Mother love pachinko They are pachipros Mother almost always wins Father loses sometimes

One day Father after a crushing defeat was very very angry so he took it out on Mother

They started to do battle I was at a loss but I did my best to settle the dispute

The next day Father and Mother went to the pachinko parlor as usual Kimiya Moriguchi

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POEMS

In Autumn During the fall my appetite goes up up and up and so does my weight Ayaka Maegawa

Bond Not James My sister got married last year and moved out of our house I live away from her but we're closer now Saki Shibata

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