vast whirlpool of wealth
sucking in green money
while drunks go sober
富の広大な渦
緑のお金を吸う
酔っぱらいが地味になりながら
falling off
the edge of the universe
into a black hole
落下
宇宙の端
ブラックホールに
the squirrels chewthe electric wires untilthey taste like fried chickenリスが噛む
まで電線
彼らはフライドチキンになります
O if I could live upon a boat
and on the water gently float,
I'd be as happy as a clam
in Angkor Wat or Amsterdam.
The vapors blowing on my face
would all my cares quite soon erase.
With kelp and duckweed I'd consort,
and seining eels would be good sport.
Yes, I would wear a skipper's cap,
while studying an ocean map.
No mortgage would I pay the bank;
I'd force those guys to walk the plank!
My crew would be a salty bunch,
who never heard of soap or brunch.
They'd swab the deck and hoist a mizzin,
and to me they would have to listen.
I'd fish all day and dance with squid,
and know just what was meant by 'fid.'
Environmentally, you know,
I'd strike a green-flecked counter-blow!
A boat, a ship, a barge, a raft --
if I could have just any craft
that kept me off of terra firma
there'd be a glow upon my derma.
And like Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
I'd feel that I was suzerain!
the cold winter snow
creeps underneath green pine trees
dusting brown pine cones
寒い冬の雪
緑の松の木の下に忍び寄る
茶色の松ぼっくりをまぶすthe cold winter snow
white in the slow-moving sun
the sparrows puff up
寒い冬の雪
動きの遅い太陽の下で白
スズメが膨らむ
the cold winter snowcannot displace memoryof green spring perfumes寒い冬の雪
メモリを置き換えることはできません
緑の春の香水の
Hung with crepe, the people mourn
North Korea's unicorn;
Kim Jong's dad, that noble steed,
died ten years ago indeed!
So with great austerity
the nation bans hilarity;
no one laughs and no one smirks --
from generals to humble clerks.
If a chuckle is detected,
that poor fool is soon corrected;
he or she in durance vile
sits and frowns for quite a while.
Once a nation bans the laugh
you can write their epitaph.
Glad I am the USA
still can laugh its cares away!
When a war is looming and there's trouble overseas
America protects its apple pie and processed cheese
by shipping out an arsenal of guns and bombs and planes
to any random country for its frivolous campaigns.
And do we ask for payment for the stuff we send abroad;
Worth a kingly ransom, with none of it slipshod?
Like Santa and his pixies, we deliver it for free;
with never any tipping or gratuity or fee.
It used to be the Commies we were fighting far afield;
we plied corrupt dictatorships with rifles, tanks, and shield
to keep those awful Marxists far away from our pure shores;
they let the guns get rusty while they learned to make s'mores.
Today our foes are legion; Uncle Sam ain't got a friend.
We buy goodwill with ammo (and we really overspend.)
Meanwhile hackers congregate to take our country down;
military weapons are a meaningless playground.
We ought to send the debt collectors out to settle things;
let them dun outstanding bills and pull a couple strings.
Then we'd sure have peace on earth, with armies out of work.
Hawks would lose their pin feathers as generals go berserk!
Scorn the fatted calf;
bring out a green lettuce leaf
for my arrival.
太った子牛を酷評しなさい。 緑のレタスの葉を引き出す 私の到着のために。
No working from work;
I have my own thermostat
thank you very much.
仕事からの仕事はありません。
私は自分のサーモスタットを持っています
どうもありがとうございます。Grim dancing grannies
fight children and chess players
for some black asphalt.
厳しいダンスのおばあちゃん
子供やチェスプレーヤーと戦う
いくつかの黒いアスファルトのために。
a wayward band of
otters in Singapore now
scare pedestrians
วงดนตรีที่เอาแต่ใจของ
นากในสิงคโปร์ตอนนี้
ทำให้คนเดินเท้าตกใจ
I go no furtherthan my wide front doorfor food and dangerฉันไม่ไปอีกแล้ว
กว่าประตูหน้ากว้างของฉัน
สำหรับอาหารและอันตราย
under this moist groundsnakes pipes of leaden reposefor the dawdling.ใต้พื้นดินที่เปียกชื้นนี้
ท่องูของลีดพักผ่อน
สำหรับคนขี้งอน
the big bellied hen
smothers her chicks with dark feathers --
they scramble for air
大きな腹鶏
彼女のひよこを暗い羽で窒息させる-
彼らは空気を奪い合う
Just what can you buythat is worth the silent driftof one white snowflake?何が買えるの？
それは静かなドリフトの価値があります
1つの白い雪の結晶の？
The earth stops spinningat the poles and instead spinsfilthy dry cobwebs.地球は回転を停止します
極で代わりに回転します
不潔な乾燥したクモの巣。
Build a better trucker's cap
I put some gas into the tank
to drive myself to the blood bank;
where they buy plasma by the quart,
so I could pay my child support.
I will not eat fast food no more.
It's not my health, it's that I'm poor
and french fries cost more than I care
to spend on food -- I'll just eat air.
At work they've killed all overtime.
The price of stamps is now a crime.
A new car is beyond my scope.
I've turned into a misanthrope.
A hermit in the dark until
I can pay the 'lectric bill.
The only thing that's costing less
are nervous breakdowns from the stress.