今朝の落書き

When it is not crowded
I sit in the middle of the long bench
and watch the scenery through the window opposite
I like the sight when we cross a river
and if something distracts me and I miss it
I am properly downhearted for a while

On a plane or a bullet train
I want a window seat
Before boarding
I make sure to include ‘looking at the scenery’
in my rough plan for how to spend the time
but once I sit down, ‘sleeping’ and ‘writing’ grow enormously
and by the time I get off
I no longer really know what I spent the most time on
and even without knowing
a poem or a piece of writing that came out well
and photographs of the scenery outside
give my sleepy self a little encouragement
so I reconsider and think, well, let us call that good
and head for the exit

Today
when I got off the train, the platform floor was wet
ah, a rain cloud walked ahead of me without my knowing
a little thought to myself came to mind

Yesterday
oh, are we here already
not even realising I had slept almost the whole way
I stepped sleepily off the bullet train
in my notebook there remained a scribble
in words from who knows which planet

Thank you for reading again today. Whatever the case, I feel I am having a good time.