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This is a poetic description of Japan. Its Japanese name is “Nihon” or “Nippon” meaning “sun Origin” (line 1). It is the world’s 3rd largest economy (line 4). The Japanese cuisine are globally popular (line 9). It is a home to different forms of martial arts (line 10) and a home to different global manufacturing companies (line 11). Japan is made up of 6,852 Islands (lines 13 & 14) and it is a world leader in robotics- producing a range of human like robots such as Asimo (line 16). The Haiku (line 17). The literacy rate in Japan is almost 100% (line 18). Black cats are believed to bring goodluck (line 20); crooked teeth are considered attractive (line 22). The Tsukiji Market in tokyo is the world’s largest fish market (line 24); It’s inappropriate to blow the nose in public and impolite to tear off a gift wrapping (line 28). The Basashi meal is a combination of slices of raw horse meat and onions and ginger (line 32). Its population is 98% ethnic Japanese (lines 34 & 35).
That’s what she calls herself
who boasts of the longest reigning monarchy in the world,
producing a short of one to twenty Nobel Prize winners
as only two colleagues beat her to global wealth.
Her buttocks sit on the red hot coal
of the deadly pacific ring of fire.
Her cultural and innovative influence,
already clinging on global corners with their webs.
The sushi, sashimi and the tempura;
the karate, judo, sumo and ninjutsa;
the Toyota, Sony, Nintendo, canon and Panasonic,
all testaments of her hands of influence.
She’s a home to over six thousand pieces
resting on large waters to stay as one.
Three-fourth of her landscape is forests or mountains
and so industrious to make possible the Asimo.
Her short poems have been globally popularized
with almost every of her citizens literate,
while some of her streets still remain nameless.
She must have acquired lots of black cats
to reach such a height of civilization and power;
Beauty comes with teeth not quite regular,
visiting the vending machine to satisfy ones need for a beer,
possessing the largest trade center for fish in the world
but publicly blowing the nose and tearing off a gift’s wrap
converts her cool countenance into a bad mood.
She has centers for drinking and taking alcoholic shots
so also for enjoying the fluid of lactation for adults.
Ironing a shirt with a speed of light
is her special craft and yardstick for a serious competition.
Population of pets outweigh that of children;
her appetite for Basashi and expenses for the melons
invite controversy to any form of human reasoning.
Immigration then is highly regulated
to give continuity to such traditional and economic history.
Copyright © Funom Makama | Year Posted 2015
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