like Japanese children's songs
animate the objects
of everyday life:
the Shinkansen
the sorrow of a fallen chestnut
a block of tofu
in his tofu-box car
is this Shinto animism?
Perhaps--
at least in part
where the Japanese child
learns to invest meaning,
that the object is mutable
and can be made to say
anything.
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