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Copyright Rob Ketcherside; contact roket swirly gwu.eduPoem from the book "" by Machida Kou 町田康
Hachikou,
You can't even eat Oriental Food!
Are you always staring with that same face,
No matter the disaster?
Hachikou,
For the next hundred years,
No barbershop stools on summer evenings.
湯
支那料理を食うこともなく
ハチ公 おまえは
いつもそのような顔で
大惨事を眺め続けるか？
ハチ公
これから百年のあいだ
夏の夜に床屋座らず