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【2月15日に寄せて】ロック詩 高村光太郎「シンガポール陥落」/[In Reflection on February 15] Rock Poem —Takamura Kotaro, “Singapore Falls” (1942)

 1942年2月15日の日本軍によるシンガポール陥落に寄せて、高村光太郎が詩を発表。『シンガポール陥落』をロック詩で再現。     In response to the fall of Singapore to Japanese forces on February 15, 1942, Japanese poet Takamura Kotaro wrote his poem  “Singapore Falls” (1942)     Here, I bring the poem back to life as a rock poem.

Drink

Drink

poem & reading by POETAQ


Drink too much, and you’ll be Royal.

You’ll make speeches like a hero, even though you’re an idiot.

And you’ll push the privileged button.

It’ll destroy your friends and also yourself.—The weapon!


Drink too much, and you’ll be a princess on the throne.

Feeling like a patron of the salon, treat men like pawns.

Then keep an eye on where they go.

Let flatterers be followed, and traitors be killed off.

  

Drink too much, and you’ll be “Godot.”

You won’t even know if you’re coming or not.

You make no difference between fiction and fact.

3D and AI - what a wonderful world.


Drink too much, and you’re a genius.

Good will turn to evil and evil to good.

Angels turn into devils, and devils turn into angels.

In other words, you’ll go up to hell.


Drank too much!


*This piece was read as 【Nuyorican Poets Cafe Online Mic Piece No. 49】at Nuyorican Poets Cafe Monday Night Online Open MIC/Theme: Elixir of mischief(Mar 27'23)



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