Occupied Japan 1945 - 1952: Gender, Class, Race

SEE YOU SOON

by Tomioka Taiko


you guys
like spring
sat face to face
then
with hands and feet
touched similarly
only the details
tomorrow and the day
after
I'm already yours
three days from now in
the evening
you'll be
in a relationship
with those long arms
eating
don't cry
before the night ends
gargle please


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Reference

Sato Hiroaki (trans.). See You Soon: Poems of Taiko Tomioka. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1979.