Give us rice

 
You've come to civilize me, you bastards?
Give me rice first! Mix salt with rice
and I'll swallow your civilization whole, right now!
I'll wipe my hands and face on the back of your literature
and sleep after that.
I'm hungry. Give me rice, rice!


Sell your whole society and eat it! All I want is rice, rice!


I'll make your society and culture into slippers,
wipe my feet and eat a plate of gleaming white rice.
I'm so hungry! In the plate of my hunger,
your society, your civilization looks...
uglier than a leech fallen on food!


Take everything you have! Tear it apart and eat it!
Just leave me one plate of plain rice, rice!
My body now craves nothing but rice!
I have no time to count the world's delicate beauties!
I'm hungry, terribly hungry!


Brick, wood, iron, stone,
plants and vines, mud and clay,
fire or coal—
whatever you've got, bastards, give me that!
Whatever you give me, I'll swallow it whole right now!


If you don't give me rice
I'll coat your society with literature, dip it in civilization's gravy...and chew it up and eat it, bastards!
Give me rice, give me rice, rice!


Rest your heads on pillows of money and sleep as you please!
Big mansions, expensive cars...eat it all!
From your buildings give me a brick or two,
give me a spoonful of cement broth,
or at least give me a tire from your car wheels,
...with a little salt!
I'm so hungry, so very hungry...!


Except for rice, I've given you everything else in the world, go!
You...bonds of love, shoulders of civilization, desires of culture...die with all that!


Listen, bastards! At the border of my hunger, except for rice,
nothing else has even the slightest right of entry...never!


If even a fragment of your civilization crosses this border
and comes within the bounds of my home,...even by mistake,
I'll kick this society in the ass and tear out all your eyes in one pull!
I'll grab your literature's demon by the throat, crush it under my feet before you can blink!
Your civilization's...that bastard wild horse, guts and all, with raw chilies...
I'll chew and lick and suck...in one gulp...swallow it alive!
You genteel bastards, give me rice, rice!


Cut up your rotting civilization and stuff it in the deep freeze!
Just give me rice, rice!
I only want rice, rice!