A Traveller’s Collection of Poems
By Hideo Asano
Published by Hideo Asano at Smashwords
Copyright by Hideo Asano 2005
ISBN: 0-9707307-7-2
Unselfish Love
I don’t care about me
But I care about you.
I care for you now
I will care for you forever.
That will take care of me
That will take care of both.
That will take care of both now
That will take care of both forever.
I really don’t care about me
But I really care about you.
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Old good wine takes care of serious wine drinkers.
Serious wine drinkers take care of old good wine.
Difference
Everybody looks different but says the same thing.
I prefer everybody to look the same but speak differently.
All the trees have different shades but say nothing.
I prefer everybody to look different but remain silent!
Singapore
Artists
Jesus couldn’t stand on earth without Earthly Kingdom.
Artists couldn’t stand on earth with much earthly possessions
Earthly possessions kill Romanticism and freedom
Thank God, at least, artists AREN’T Jesus.
Peace
Hard rock and roll every corner
in almost everywhere in Kuala Lumpur
Where can you sit and read and think about things in peace then?
Not in cheap cafeterias, but in fine restaurants of 5-star hotels.
Then you could buy peace there on 15 R per glass of beer.
To preserve peace for a nation through war costs taxpayers
millions or billions of dollars.
Two different type of peace we are dealing with
but you have to pay for.
Peace. There is no free peace you have to pay for.
“Would you like something else?” said a waitress.
“I’m okay. I’m not hungry.”
My empty stomach belongs to a cheap cafeteria later on.
Kuala Lumpur
Blind People
A large farmer chopped a tall sunflower
taller than him heartlessly with a shovel
at the base of the stem and carelessly threw it away
to the earth to lay to dry in the hot sun helplessly
out of his cornfield.
“Suck too much water!” complained the farmer
as if spitting on the poor sunflower.
Van Gogh would jump on the farmer
to kill the farmer with a cut throat razor
hating to see anyone persecuting his idol.
Just as I would jump on anyone who is mistreating cats;
I would jump on those heartless people whoever says,
“Cats do nothing.”
Aren’t they giving you beauty besides chasing filthy rats away?
Sunflowers and cats aren’t giving any feeling
to certain number of people.
who couldn’t get any feeling from anything else,
but only from gold.
Blind people could see it better
than those who could see well.
Blind people could feel the beauty
than those who could see things better.
Singapore
Black Terror
I am a peacefully violent guy.
I will blow your brains up
not bridges
with words.
With words of landmines
that could blow your brains up
not legs.
Blowing up bridges are
not blowing up anything.
Blowing up brains are
blowing up everything.
Blowing bridges means
brains of you are still existing
which means no one broke
anyone’s anything
and nothing else!
Don’t Talk
Don’t talk like that.
Don’t talk like this.
Don’t talk like that too.
Don’t talk like this too.
Don’t talk also like that.
Don’t talk also like this.
Don’t talk like that either.
Don’t talk like this either.
Don’t talk also like that either.
Don’t talk also like this either.
They forgot my mouth
Belongs to whom.
Fearless
I never fear anyone
I fear nothing
I only fear bed to get into
not any sort of woman in it
Why bed?
B.B.
What’s B.B.?
Bed bug.
A bedbug can destroy your dreams
And give you headaches the next day while
making your body itch all over your body
“Those bed bugs carried by all those backpackers from other countries,”
said a young man who worked in a guesthouse
Backpackers attract bedbugs
The backpackers belong to the mountains, not in the cities
I fear B.B. more than A.B.
What’s A.B.?
Atomic bomb.