Spring 2000 John Pereira (Editor) |
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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 |
Honda is my partner my friend He is very old but he's doing fine He has run 75000 kilometers He tries hard but tires easily Hiroyuki Matsuyama |
I have a cat he is a selfish cat and he is a proud cat My neighbor says pets resemble their owners Keiko Yuno |
I have no money no car and no girlfriend But I have a good friend He has no money no car and no girlfriend Kantaro Iwasaki |
On a crowded train I told an old woman to sit in my seat But she said I'm not that old! Miho Kawamura |
Making war is the worst act in the world How will war disappear? will war disappear? |
only way I think is for all of us to kill ourselves Kazuhiko Nishiguchi |
I played a trick on my mother and so she got angry and was terrible but then the telephone rang |
answered it in a calm and beautiful voice I wonder where she hid her anger? Kumiko Onishi |
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I've been watching the phone since I got home from school I can't stop looking at it I can't leave it alone even for a second |
guarding it like a watch dog because he said I'll call you Miki Soejima |
Though the rain is cold I want to keep on getting wet because the rain washes away my memories and my tears Yuka Funama |
It is spring and so people dress up to look beautiful Do the trees on the hillsides do the same? Noriko Katayama |
When people are sad they believe in God when people are happy they forget Him Tomoya Fukura |
Thank you for cooking for me every day Thank you for cleaning my room for me every day Thank you for working for me every day |
And thank you for being concerned about me every day I appreciate what you do for me but I'm too embarrassed to say it |
I write it here Hiroe Kido |
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I've been working part time
since March this year. Every summer Ms Mori, who employs us,
takes the student-workers swimming somewhere. Although she is
sixty years or more she's crazy about swimming. |