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日本の焼き鳥：焼かれる前

Japanese birds as salad

Japanese birds made into salad

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Japanese birds dead from earthquake

Japanese birds being packaged for sale at the convenience store

I cooked spaghetti all through the spring, summer and into the fall like a person bent on revenge, like a jilted lover burning a bundle of old love letters. She tosses them one by one into the flames of the fireplace; I slide bundles of spaghetti into the boiling water.

I put the trampled shadow into the bowl and then I mold it into the shape of a German shepherd. Then I drop it into the boiling water and I add some salt. I’m standing in front of the aluminum pot, a pair of long chopsticks in my hand, waiting for the mournful ‘ping’ of the egg timer. My bundles of spaghetti are sly and cunning—that’s why I can’t take my eyes off of them. At the moment they are sliding down the edge of the pot, disappearing into the inky darkness of night. Like a brightly colored butterfly being swallowed up by the eternity of the tropical jungle. Evening is calmly waiting for the arrival of the bundles of spaghetti.

spaghetti polonaise basil spaghetti spaghetti and garlic spaghetti carbonara,

spaghetti with clam and tomato sauce spaghetti and beef tongue.

Sometimes from the refrigerator I randomly grabbed leftovers to make spaghetti that tragically never receives a name. Nameless. The bundles of spaghetti being born in the steam in the year 1971, flowing like a river to the sea until it disappears. I mourned for them. All of my bundles of spaghetti in the year of 1971.

When the phone rings at 3:20, I am lying on my tatami mat and gazing at the ceiling. I am lying in the middle of a pool of warm winter sunlight, perfect for such mindless times. Like a dead fly in the sunlight of December 1971.

Japanese birds dead.

Japanese birds being pickled

Japanese birds for sale at the konbini

Japanese birds being sold as Christmas gifts

Japanese birds being packaged for sale

Japanese birds suffocating in a small plastic container

Japanese birds being prepared for pickling