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    A man describes how even though he is wearing the same clothes and is as poor and drunk as the day before, he feels completely different inside. He closes his eyes to the mocking smiles and laughs of others and sees within himself a beautiful white butterfly fluttering towards a new tomorrow.

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     I am Different

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    A man describes how even though he is wearing the same clothes and is as poor and drunk as the day before, he feels completely different inside. He closes his eyes to the mocking smiles and laughs of others and sees within himself a beautiful white butterfly fluttering towards a new tomorrow.

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    Translated by James Kirkup, Burning Girraffes: Modern and Contemporary Japanese Poetry

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    I Am Completely Different I am completely different.

    Though I am wearing the same tie as yesterday, am as poor as yesterday, as good for nothing as yesterday, today I am completely different. Though I am wearing the same clothes, am as drunk as yesterday, living as clumsily as yesterday, nevertheless today I am completely different. Ah ... I patiently close my eyes on all the grins and smirks on all the twisted smiles and horse laughs--and glimpse then, inside me one beautiful white butterfly fluttering towards tomorrow. ~ Kuroda Saburo ~

    (translated by James Kirkup, Burning Girraffes: Modern and Contemporary Japanese Poetry)

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