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Poem

Yukio Tsuji

THE DITCH

With one leg in the ditch
a kidnapper,
too busy cleaning the ditch
to kidnap,
thought:
Since I don’t kidnap
nowadays
I’m no longer a kidnapper
but a true
ditch cleaner of Edo.
I shall clean the ditch
tomorrow.

THE DITCH

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THE DITCH

With one leg in the ditch
a kidnapper,
too busy cleaning the ditch
to kidnap,
thought:
Since I don’t kidnap
nowadays
I’m no longer a kidnapper
but a true
ditch cleaner of Edo.
I shall clean the ditch
tomorrow.

THE DITCH

With one leg in the ditch
a kidnapper,
too busy cleaning the ditch
to kidnap,
thought:
Since I don’t kidnap
nowadays
I’m no longer a kidnapper
but a true
ditch cleaner of Edo.
I shall clean the ditch
tomorrow.
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