please take your time
Ryuta Iwashita
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please take your time to read this
please stop reading when you need to
please play the back ground music
please look around without turning your head
please look around as you turn your head
please soften your belly
please breath in and out as deeply as you would like
please remember that you are not a furniture
please remember that your heart is beating
please know that nothing is translated perfectly
わーい！多重人格おめでとう！
Why! When I celebrate my multiplicity and bathe in it,
祭りの後、家路へ急ぐ、電車の中なのにお風呂に浸かっている感覚。
When my personality ferments into even more personalities,
しげるくん、しげらないくん。
When I intensely grow more faces,
ひかるちゃん、ひからないちゃん。
When I seasonally flirt with myself making no sense to my own brain,
ああ、お盆だから、より一層気をつけたい。
When I lowkey change what’s decided and married,
つけたい。柴漬けも。品も。あの子の後も。どうだろう。
Wheん I highkey chaんge what’s already chaんged,
あの旅が終わり、結婚生活も終わり、度重なる終わりも終わり、昨日も終わり、今日も終わりそうであるが、あなたたちへのさようならがしっくりこない。じゃけん、おやすみと言う。どうだろう。星が明日も煌めいてくれる、あなたたちが明日も煌めいてくれると暗示しながらおやすみと言う。どうだろう。
Wheん I live my life that is not miんe,
帰国したら基本はらーめん、すし、ラーメン、スシ、拉麺、寿司。
Wheん I become someoんe I am not iん love with,
Z世代が浴衣でスマホをいじると、桜島が噴火して、ナタデココが余裕で蘇り、タイの王様の妹がBL映画を観に行く。ついでに中国のロケットが不時着の準備をして、夕陽がだらしなく落ちると、池袋、終点です。さて、感情がこもったのはいつでしょう？
Wheん I am a gender-ful embryo-baby-child-adult-elder persoん,
あんぽんたんのおたんこなす！
The noodles get soggy in the soup, aんd I caん seんse that I am doiんg enough in the soup.
please take your time to disengage
please remember that you are not a furniture
please remember that your heart is beating
please know that nothing is translated perfectly
ありがとう。thank you.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ryuta Iwashita (they/them) currently lives and improvises in Bulbancha (also colonially known as New Orleans) in the USA as a movement/performance/visual artist and educator after living in Japan for 25 years. Their artistic lexicons are rooted in social justice, somatics, martial arts, child education, and ancestral work including 祖体 (SOTAI) of which Ryuta is its conceiver. Learn more at their website or find them on Instagram @ryuutaiwashita or Facebook.
COVER ART
Artwork courtesy of author. Image description: author wearing black, sleeveless top and gold, hamza earrings with long, black hair pulled back, standing against a black background.
