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Three-stringed lute played on a stormy day
A white-faced geisha in purple kimono dancing
Torn red paper umbrella fending off raindrops
Wooden buckets elevated by a bamboo platform
                filling with water rippled by the rain
                and flowers fallen from trees
Crooked footpaths green with grass
Farmers dancing on drenched paddies
                breaking up the soil baked by the sun

Samurais in battle formations
With half-shaved heads and shiny black hair
                neatly tied-down
Rushing to their glorious deaths by a master’s sword
Singing like the wind on a stormy day

                                                    While watching "Zatoichi"
                                                    12:20 p.m.
                                                    Commonwealth, Quezon City