Jung Young Moon: Vaseline Buddha

What will I do now that I’ve written a story? With summer here now I could start writing about the difficulty of passing the summer season, and spend the summer writing.

But for now I don’t want to go again into a story, into a deep tunnel.

Instead, I wind the spring of a music box on the table by the window, after the shamisen music comes to an end. I hear music. Like a child, I put words to the music in my mind. But I recite the words, not singing even in my mind, because I hate singing.

There’s a moving island somewhere in Australia.

And the island continues to move.

The island moves the same distance every year, with the waves moving the sand.

The island remains the same size, with the same amount of sand piling up.

As the island moves, the lighthouse on the island, too, must be moved continuously.

Thinking about the island, which exists in reality but exists even more vividly in my imagination, I slowly make my way somewhere amid the sound of music. I think it’s time to put an end to a long thought.

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