art | mugi take
あたしの 半分
井上洋子
教室が眠ってるまに
あたしは大人になればよかった
教室が眠っていると
あたしも眠っていた
教室が起きているときすることは
13才だったあたしの頭を叩くこと
焼却炉は運動場のすみで
あたしの何かを灰にした
あたしの半分を教室がつくった
あたしの半分は
Half of Me
Yoko Inoue
Translated from the Japanese by Alex Jones
I wish I had grown up,
While my classroom was sleeping,
While my classroom was sleeping,
I was sleeping too.
When my classroom was awake,
It would hit my 13-year-old head,
And the incinerator in the corner of the playground,
Would burn something of mine to ashes.
Half of me,
Was made by my classroom,
And half of me,
Is leaving my classroom far behind.
Half of me
Yoko Inoue
Translated from the Japanese by Mugi Takei
while the classroom was
asleep, I should have
grown up
while the classroom was
asleep, I too
was asleep
while the classroom was
awake, it was to
hit my 13 year old head
the incinerator in the corner
of the school yard burned
something
of me to
cinders
the classroom manufactured
half of me
the other half
of me now is
drifting apart from the classroom
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