Watak kerdil bercakap besar
Otak pejal berlagak pintar
Kerja malas beralas gambus
Begitulah sang tokoh tikus!
On Your Online Profile
I stumbled onto your online profile today
On your corporate website
With words like
Excellently and
Well-known and
Visionary
Encrusted like jewels
On a bed of warm, mediocre poop
Of course, your online profile
Would omit the things
One would be embarrassed to
Speak about in polite company
And in highfalutin conferences
And in royal courts
Like how you left those bruises
On your wife
In places no one could see
Like how you abandoned
Your children
In ways no one could ever recover from
Like how you chased down
Your current younger wife
In ways she herself
Would wish to never remember
But you can rest easy
Because your online profile
Would keep all those things
Well hidden
Like your own life, and who you really are
Hidden away so well
Between those lines of blind self-praise
That you now hardly know
Your own self.
On Our Evening in Ginza
Twelve thousand steps and
I’m still grinning ear to ear:
Our final evening!
On The Bus to Ginza
Riding on the bus
The streets of Tōkyō pass by
I nod off to sleep.
On Tokyo’s Trains
Webs of hurtling trains
Knit together this city
In constant motion.
Tentang Kongzi
Dari gagalnya
Cita wazir, menjadi
Guru tiap zaman.
On Becker’s Creatureliness
This creatureliness
Is the crux of my being;
I live, and I die.
On The Shinkansen
Night falls around us,
Sliced apart by nerveless speed:
We ride the bullet.
On Nara’s Deer Park
Oblivious to
You or me, the deer enjoy
Their charmed existence.
Tentang Jalan Terang
Mata cerah
Akal cekal
Hati kental:
Tiada aral!
Jalan terang
Cerah arah
Tegas langkah:
Tiada gundah!