MURAKAMI

MURAKAMI
“you must have big rats
if you need Japanese steel”
                 Kill Bill, Volume 1

I read some Murakami
that we might
be on
the same page

if not
dance together
at least be able to
whistle
    the same
    tune

which I hear now
floating over old Edo

before
    it got firebombed to death
turned to ash

rose again as fresh colossus
spreading its fingers
into how
    we picture our world