(From: An Explanation of Japan)
Heian Period
The kid who gets on everyone's tits,
this Genji, in whom the sun rises and sets.
Prince of perfection, and long flowing
gowns hide the slight indiscretion
beneath the text, text one or two or three,
there is eroticism, the kind of sexual geometry
Peter Greenaway approves of, hira-ga-NA,
that is set for kids in high school classes
that bores them, bores them to their asses,
and Arthur Waley translated it like Arthur Daley
a wide boy come to the Art of the Orient
while Seidensticker, a stickler for the right
painstakingly translated the first novel
and now you can see it on the cable
channel, Genji!, Genji!, the young girls shout
he wears neogothic and glow-in-the-dark lip
stick, and he sings with a popular group,
in the audience the girls with platform
shoes, wave made-in-China battery torches.
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