な​め​く​じ​フ​ェ​ス​テ​ィ​バ​ル​(​Slug Festival)

from エ​メ​ラ​ル​ド​・​グ​リ​ー​ン​区​(​Emerald Green Ward) by Miya Matsuoka

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天気予報は雨でした
なめられっぱなしのなめくじが
繁華街へ向かう

あなたの名前は何ですか
えっ  名前  何だろう

名前のない なめくじ
かたつむりのように背負うものもないなめくじ
ガード下で のたうちまわる なめくじの群れを
子どもは 見ては いけないよ

身軽なその身体をカーブさせて
空を見上げる なめくじ
ためいきの なめくじ
忸怩たる思いの なめくじ
じめじめした場所を好む なめくじ

(きらきら きらきら)

綺麗なお花が大好きで
お花のそばに近づいては花びらを食べてしまい 
お花に嫌われる なめくじ
駆除の対象となる なめくじ

だけど 泣いてはいけないよ
涙には塩分が含まれているからね

そんななめくじだけど 楽しみがある
今夜は役所で「なめくじフェスティバル」があるんだ
野外でビールが飲み放題なんだ
ただ酒 飲むぞと 地下通路を這いずる数百のなめくじ
酔っぱらって傷をなめあう なめくじ
身体のほかには何も持っていないから
共食いするしかない なめくじ

天気予報は雨でした
なぜか 塩分の混ざった雨が 
降ってきた

(ざあざあ ざあざあ)

はい こちら警備室です
フェス会場のなめくじですが 全滅です
本部 どうぞ

ママ この地下通路はどうしてきらきら光っているの?
それはね 貧しくても心の綺麗な人たちがたくさん歩いた道だからよ
その方たちを祭るために こんど 花壇を作るのよ

一度でいいから キスが したかったでした

(English translation)

The forecast has called for rain.
A snubbed slug heads downtown.

What's your name?
Oh, I wonder, what is my name?

A slug with no name.
A slug with nothing to carry, different than a snail.

Children shouldn’t watch a bunch of slugs
crawling around the ground.

A slug who curves its lithe body and looks to the sky.
A slug with a sigh.
A slug with sullen thoughts.
A slug who prefers the damp.

(Glitter Glitter)

A slug who loves beautiful flowers
and is yet hated by flowers,
because it approaches too closely and eats them.
A slug who is targeted for killing.

But a slug mustn't cry.
There's so much salt in tears.

But I have something to look forward to.
There's a slug festival at the Town Hall tonight.
I can be outdoors and drink all the beer I want.

Wanting free alcohol, hundreds of slugs are
crawling through the underpasses.
Slugs get drunk and lick each other's wounds.
Slugs eat each other since they don't have anything else.

The forecast has called for rain.
Strangely enough, a salty cloudburst has fallen.  
 
(zap zap zap zap)

"Hello, this is security.   
All the slugs at the festival were wiped out.
Please check with headquarters. "

Mama, why are the underpasses so shiny and bright?
That’s from many people who were poor
but with beautiful hearts who walked that path.
The government is planting a flower bed in their honor.

I wish I could’ve kissed someone, just once.

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