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Yukio Tsuji

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A RAZOR

I silently
watch a grinder
whetting a razor.
“Say, mister,
aren’t you working today?”
“Yeah, I\'m working
but today
I just feel like
watching a grinder
whetting a razor.”
I lower my head
and becoming a black
lump on the street,
I keep watching all day
until the day ends.

© Translation: 1998, William I. Elliott and Kazuo Kawamura (Read by Don Mueller)

A RAZOR

© 1990, Yukio Tsuji
From: Uguisu-Kodomo to Samurai no 16 Hen
Publisher: Shoshi Yamada, Tokyo

Yukio Tsuji

Yukio Tsuji

(Japan, 1939 - 2000)

Yukio Tsuji was born in downtown Tokyo in 1939. He grew up there without seeing his father, who had been drafted and sent to China during the second world war, until he was 4 years old. When he was 7, his family moved to Miyake Island, 180 km off the coast from Tokyo, where they stayed for 3 years. There, he spent much of his time swimming in the Pacific Ocean and dreaming of becoming a sailor,...

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A RAZOR

I silently
watch a grinder
whetting a razor.
“Say, mister,
aren’t you working today?”
“Yeah, I\'m working
but today
I just feel like
watching a grinder
whetting a razor.”
I lower my head
and becoming a black
lump on the street,
I keep watching all day
until the day ends.

© 1998, William I. Elliott and Kazuo Kawamura (Read by Don Mueller)
From: Uguisu-Kodomo to Samurai no 16 Hen

A RAZOR

I silently
watch a grinder
whetting a razor.
“Say, mister,
aren’t you working today?”
“Yeah, I\'m working
but today
I just feel like
watching a grinder
whetting a razor.”
I lower my head
and becoming a black
lump on the street,
I keep watching all day
until the day ends.

© 1998, William I. Elliott and Kazuo Kawamura (Read by Don Mueller)

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