電車に乗ったつもりなのに線路がない。
ゴミ捨て場のように見える土手の上を
幼児向け玩具みたいな乗り物で進む。
そのうち乗り物も変形しながら変質して
空気で膨らませたビニール製の怪獣になった。
そして商店街の屋根の上を這うように進む。
屋根のつらなりが途切れ、やむなく歩道に着地。
見下ろす女子高生らの視線が冷たい。
這いながら、木挽町という名の駅の近くで
立ち食いソバ屋を始めた母子のうわさを聞く。
Crawling Monster
I thought I was on the train,
but there is no railroad track.
I ride on a toy-like vehicle for toddlers on a bank
that looks like a garbage dump.
Eventually, the vehicle changed as it deformed,
becoming an air-inflated vinyl monster.
And I crawl on the roof of the shopping street.
The roof was cut off
and I was forced to land on the sidewalk.
The eyes of high school girls looking down are cold.
While crawling, I hear rumors of a mother and child
who started a standing-eating buckwheat noodle shop
near a station named Kobiki-cho.
