This morning after listening to the world
I was about to jump into the world when
I must wash my face
And brush my teeth.
Brush my teeth!
Then and there,
as if electrocuted all of a sudden
as if I had to view the scence again – vividly
her acting of the way she brushed her teeth!
How she
brushed her teeth
then gurgled
and the gurgle
she swallowed
Then her photograph
her name Kawabata Mamiko
a quote from her
I read:
“I am not an artist
I am a…worker”
My friend, who reads this poem
Have you brushed your teeth?
Aung Cheimpt
September 2005
Translated by Maung Tha Noe
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