Addicted - Angkarn Kalyanapong

Scoop up the sea, pour it in a bowl,

and dine on it and rice,

reach out, gather some stars,

and mix them with salt to eat.

Look at crabs and oysters dancing with joy

and playing nostalgic songs,

or chameleons and galley worms flying

to eat the sun and moon!

A toad climbs on a golden palanquin

and floats around Heaven on special tour.

He goes together with a bull frog,

and the angels there escape, into the shell of a coconut.

Earthworms woo maids,

the Apsaras who sleep in Heaven,

and every amoeba

sticks up his nose because of his very high status.

The gods are bored with celestial abodes

so leap down to eat the dung on earth.

This waste matter they praise,

for its taste is most splendid and can't be described.

Groves of trees and forests

can talk deep philosophy.

Sawdust in its sleep

can calculate the weight of shadows.

Anyone who doesn't go up to Heaven

and remains below on earth is stupid,

for the heavy would be light,

and the world is very, very drunk.  

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Angkarn Kalyanapong (1926 - 2012) Thailand 

Translated by S. Sivaraksa and H. Woodward

Source: The Siam Society