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Yebisu

To Yoshihide Tsuge

talking about the rock
bands we love

having their

roots

in the blues

waiting for his wife
to change their daughter's pampers

we look
down

at the city nightscape

ten years ago, i say

all those lights
were exciting

now

they scare me

he says: go back

to the dreams
you had as a kid

they'll show you the way...

then his wife comes back
with their daughter, i lift her

high
up

with a:

Yay!

her tiny face smiles down at me

 

Notes:
Yebisu: a district of Tokyo.
Yoshihide Tsuge: Japanese singer-songwriter.

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