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    Natsukage
    Natsukage
    Natsukage
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    Natsukage

    By The Ant

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    In 2013, The Ant embarked on a journey across the Japanese countryside. He took with him a backpack, a notebook and a pen. These are the collected scribblings, musings and poetry compiled from his travels.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Ant
    Release dateDec 15, 2013
    Natsukage
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    The Ant

    Chances are you’ve heard of the Ant from somewhere far away. And I’m not talking about those little black things that scuttle along the path under your feet. Part Chestertonian, part brooding media student and part systematic nerd, he lives in complete isolation from the thing called reality and insists you don’t bother him. Ever. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Visit his blog at http://theantblog.com

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      Natsukage - The Ant

      Natsukage

      The Ant

      Copyright 2013 The Ant

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      Flying Again

      Last flight 1492,

      the last two being

      ends of the Pole,

      beginnings and ends of the Earth.

      The Changi Lady, with

      her nose-dive pierced upwards,

      she braves Zeus’ bane –

      titanium liner in a sea of thunderstorms.

      This city is afraid of me

      it sits in the dead of night,

      this city is awaiting me

      and it beams out into the light

      Making into the green,

      tangerine, burst of

      nature like the greenery

      behind the limelight.

      But this is the existence

      within migraines – induced pinpoint

      flying, reminding

      and vaguely shuffling the deck.

      Matchstick and the boat,

      a lightning dome above

      the Singapore.

      The Cave, The Cave!

      The dead repaved!

      Life life life

      seems so depraved!

      I remember purgatory,

      white as death and

      sanitised turbulence,

      stable like a rocking horse,

      mystic horse,

      clearer than

      the Ballad of the White Horse.

      Then, cometh breakthrough;

      a squall of nightmares

      brings the harbringer,

      return, repave.

      So, unto the wind

      and thunder and rain and lightning

      and all things terrifying we go –

      Forever Death’s shadow,

      Forever chasing Summer.

      A yellow flower

      buds in Shinjuku concrete –

      a sign of new life.

      Lights in Tokyo

      First scribblings of the Japanese culture:

      much smoke

      so bright

      strange voices

      wow

      Mere hours out in Tokyo –

      phone’s gone walkabout,

      party in the red-light shindig!

      Funny

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