トイレでひとり歌っていると 月が転がり込んできた
裸のままで自転車に乗って 暗喩の森を駆け抜けて月が私に会いに来た
外の通りを美しい女が 歯を磨きながら歩いていく
公園のベンチでは妊婦服を着た男が リンゴジュースを飲んでいる
世紀末には健康がつきものだ
空にぽっかり空いた穴
月のような不安も月のような憂いも消えて 「のような」 たちが穴の周りを朗らかに飛び回る
深淵の皺は伸び つるつるになった苦悩の表面で 詩人たちがスケートを始める
月 私の 隣の
Ich sang auf der Toilette, da kam der Mond herangerollt.
Nackt auf einem Fahrrad. Wer hatte den Weg mitten durch den
Metaphern-Park genommen, um mich zu treffen?
Draußen die Straße entlang spazierte zähneputzend eine schöne Frau.
Auf der Bank im Park trank ein Mann in Umstandskleidung Apfelsaft.
Am Ende eines Jahrhunderts ist Gesundheit eben angesagt.
Im Himmel klaffte ein Loch, die mondgestaltige Angst,
die mondgestaltige [UNVERSTÄNDLICH] sind weg.
Alles Gestaltige flattert munter um das Loch herum.
Die Falte des Abgrunds glättet sich.
Auf der blanken Oberfläche der Sorge treten die Dichter auf Schlittschuhen an.
Mond, meiner, neben mir.
When i came to Europe, I carried some burning questions
in my travel bag.
Will I become another person if I speak another language?
Does a little seahorse look different
if it is no longer called--
タツノオトシゴ.
The last child of the dragon, but rather the little horse
from the sea.
Will I no longer cook rice, but eat it uncooked?
If there's only one word, rice, for cooked rice--
ごはん.
--as well as uncooked rice--
米.
--do I always have to cook chunky soup
if I'm no longer supposed to say, to drink soup,
but to eat soup?
Do I have twice as much time after work,
if there are two words for the same space of time, evening
and night?
In the evening, one can go to the theater,
and during the night, one can sleep.
In Japanese, there's only one word--
夜.
--for evening, as well as for night, therefore one
does not sleep enough.
Will I study with more self-confidence,
if homework is considered work, just
like all other work in the society?
Can one, in good conscience, take years writing a paper?
In Japanese, unfortunately, whatever
belongs to the realm of learning--
勉強
--does not belong to the realm of work.
仕事
I've been living in Hamburg for 23 years now.
Have you become a different person, I'm asked.
Are you a different person when you speak German, I'm asked.
These questions are not easily answered.
If a person were to acquire an additional personality when
learning an additional language, someone
who speaks five languages would possess five personalities.
Should this person look like a country fair
with five different booth?
I don't have a single booth, I'm similar to a web.
The structure of a web gets denser when
new traits are incorporated.
In this way, a new pattern is formed.
They're more and more knots, tight and loose spots,
irregularities, uncompleted corners, edges, holes,
or superimposed layers.
This web, which can catch tiny planktons,
I will call a multilingual web.
いつも何語で夢をみますか？
In which language do you dream?
Kannst du dich an den Traum erinnern, von dem ich dir vor ein paar Jahren erzählt habe?
Ich hatte eine leuchtende Birne in der Hand und –
Do you remember the dream about a pear
I told you a few years ago?
I carried a glowing pear in my hand,
and wanted to go to the temple where you slept.
I did not forget that dream, because it
answered the question I've been asked so often.
Which language do you dream in?
I spoke German when I talked to you in the dream,
like in a non-dream.
That does not mean that I dream in German.
If it was as simple as that, I could even
say that I dreamed in Polish, because I
said the two Polish words I know in a dream once.
It is not extraordinary to speak a foreign language in a dream,
but the glowing pear shows clearly
that I dreamt in the German language.
In Japanese, the word, nashi, pear,
has nothing to do with a light bulb, thank you.
The Japanese pear has no reason to glow.