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Dashi
You play us like fools
then you
reel us in
our whole lives wasted
Guts thrown in a bucket
staring upwards
a glazed death throe view
some reward
the flames of the Devil's pot
searing empty fillets
of soul
Published 5th Jan 2010
| Edited 7th Feb 2023
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Anonymous
5th Jan 2010 1:14pm
the violence in your words really stage the pain.
5th Jan 2010 1:22pm
Well, I'm quite sure if God had a bucket it would be brimming with gore. Dashi is cold Japanese soup containing fish, in case you did't know, Priya. (Surprisingly refreshing!)
Anonymous
5th Jan 2010 2:13pm
yeah i know,read a little bit about japanese culture as my mphil thesis was on the japanese novelist yasunari kawabata and about geisha-culture specifically.
5th Jan 2010 2:27pm
If only the world was as polite as the Japanese - how did they ever launch such a terrible expansionist war - they were much better off as country in isolation. Oops, history again we can't escape!
Anonymous
5th Jan 2010 2:29pm
its also a heavily patriarchal culture for all the politeness A:-)
5th Jan 2010 2:41pm
