猿になりたい
靴底からくる路面の足音
居心地わるく鼻が痒い
二階に干された洗濯物
ぞわぞわと揺れている
青空にジェット機の轟音
三本の電線が飛行機を遮る
十三階建てのマンションが
むっつり黙って知らん顔
角の丸い逆三角に白い文字
いや、止まらない!
壁で日に焼けたポスター
誰だ、あなたは!
おお、神よ!――
アダムとイブを罰し給え!
裸で歩けぬこの悲喜劇
猿になりたい
後ろ足で握手して
後ろ足でジャンケンを祈る
寝場所への足音で
"I Want to Be a Monkey"
The sound of the road rising through my soles—
uneasy, my nose begins to itch.
Laundry hung on the second floor
shivers, restlessly swaying.
A jet roars across the blue sky;
three power lines cut across its path.
A thirteen-story apartment block
keeps a sullen, silent, blank face.
White letters on a rounded inverted triangle—
“No, I won’t stop!”
A sun-bleached poster on the wall:
“Who are you?”
O God—
punish Adam and Eve!
This tragicomedy of not being allowed to walk naked.
I want to be a monkey—
to shake hands with my hind legs,
to pray for rock-paper-scissors with my hind legs,
with footsteps toward a place to sleep.




