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    幽霊 → English translation

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幽霊

在りし日の幻影を
ハンガーにぶら下げて
 
多情な少年は
出がけに人影を見る
去り行くものに外套を着せて
見送る先は風ばかり
 
かじかむ指先でドアを開けて
未練を置きざりにして街に出る
 
繁華街で馴染みの顔と
音のしない笑い声
喧噪が静寂
 
楽しいと喜びが反比例しだして
意識の四隅に沈殿する
小さな後悔ばかりを
 
うんざりする程看取り続けて
一人の部屋に帰る頃
どうでもいい落日が
こんな情緒をかき混ぜるから
見えざるものが見えてくる
 
幽霊 夕暮れ 留守電
がらんどうの部屋
 
Translation

Spirits

Hanging up the fantasies of his bygone days,
a sentimental teenager passes by a shadow on his way out.
 
His coat is wrapped around someone long-departed, and now the winds are all that lie ahead.
With frigid fingertips, he opens the door, leaves behind his lingering affection, and heads into town.
Downtown, he sees familiar faces and hears silent laughter. The city is deafeningly quiet.
His happiness recedes into the periphery of his awareness, as he trades it away for cheap pleasures.
He's been nursing all his small regrets for long enough to be sick of it,
and when he returns to his one-bedroom apartment, the apathetic setting sun
stirs all these feelings together, and he starts to see things unseen.
 
Spirits. Nightfall. Voicemails. An empty apartment.
 
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