Bonsai of Thoughts (Translated)

Bonsai of Thoughts: One Hundred Sixty-Eight

1. The bald man goes regularly to the barber.
Is this what we call discipline?

2. Even the blind man's
wristwatch
tells the right time.

3. If you want someone
who will bind you
in love alone, not lust,
then seek a eunuch!

4. Funeral ashes drift in the wind.
Looking at them, it seems
as if a flock of small grey butterflies
has come to bid farewell!

5. Come into the light now!
You've died enough from faith!

6. The more I
think of you,
the less I understand.

7. One who lives on sinful pleasures
should be prepared—
when the time comes, to sell all happiness at market!

8. The joy of sexuality during days of dependence
and the comfort of prosperity during days of independence—
rarely do both happen in one lifetime.

9. Employment means shackles.
These shackles create such a credible world
where every kind of servitude seems reasonable.
It takes great courage to break free from there.

10. Why couldn't you even now
become faithful like a dog?

11. Henna on the girl's hands,
handcuffs on the boy's.

12. Does the river's wave
know
that someone lives on its love too?

13. The last leaf that falls from the tree—
does the tree not weep for its separation?

14. Don't sleep
waiting for spring.
Wake up
to bring spring.

15. In childhood
even watching jet trails
was something to wait for.
How easily simple life is lost!

16. Does the bee really need
acquaintance with flowers
to gather honey?

17. Even when rain falls in spring,
spring remains spring.

18. All the stones scattered
along the railway tracks—
do they know
exactly where the train stops?

19. Does the cloud shelter the moon?
Or does the moon indulge the cloud?

20. The child who plays
flinging arms and legs about
wonders in amazement—
why does mother's body ache
when I play?
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