Mirror

Translated from the Korean by Jack Jung

Inside the mirror is soundless

Perhaps no other world is so silent

Inside the mirror I still have ears

Two pitiful ears cannot understand my words

Inside the mirror I am a lefty who knows not

how to take my handshake—a lefty who knows no handshakes

Because of the mirror I cannot touch the me-inside-the-mirror

Because of the mirror I get to meet the me-inside-the-mirror

I do not have the mirror now but the me-inside-the-mirror is in it

I do not know but he is probably obsessed with his lefty work

The me-inside-the-mirror is the opposite of me and yet

looks quite like me—I am disappointed
I cannot agonize on and examine the me-inside-the-mirror

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