Hello Aniki: The Great Of Silom Road Poem by Nanashino Ryu

The whole world was excited at FIFA World Cup USA.
However, he was going only his way as usual!

One evening when it wasn't cool,
the man was walking to try to be cool
on Silom Road in Bangkok.
The sunburned upper body was naked.
His short pants had several vents.
As for his sandals, wore out,
right and left were different colors.
The long hair looked like dreadlocks.
In the terrible traffic jam, passengers in buses,
taxi divers, a guy driving Tuk-tuk,
a beautiful ladyboy going to the Show,
everybody were following him with eyes.
The man was talking alone while putting
an empty shampoo bottle on his left ear.
He stopped, nodded, and walked again.
He stopped, pressed front of the bottle,
and talked again.

He was surprised that people had begun to talk alone,
though there wasn't a person to talk to,
though they weren't in front of pay phone either.
He wondered……why, what ……?
Because everyone laughed at him when he talked to himself.
He wondered so much……why, what ……? ?
However, number of ladies and gentlemen who talked alone
went on increasing around him day by day.
Moreover, no one laughed at them!
He crossed his arms, looked down for a while.
"Oh Yessssssss! I get it! !
All of them have something in a hand.
I must have something in my hand, too.
Booyah! I can talk, I can talk! ! "
He was walking on air. It was new feeling in his life.
In the dusk on Silom Road in Bangkok,
when he laughed, everybody laughed too.

About 20 years later……
Aniki became something of a famous man.
He was interviewed on the television.
The articles on Aniki were in the newspapers
and the magazines, too.
One early morning, he picked up a name card case
in front of Bangkok Bank head office.
The big building became the Monolith for him.
The aluminum case became his new communication tool.
He took it out to show off
when he felt someone watching him.
"I flip this side, like this……Look at me, I'm on fleek! "
Onlookers began to shoot a video of him with smartphone.
Aniki also began to push out his arm having a holy treasure.
"Exchange greetings with metal and metal.
What a smart greeting style! This is the New Age! ! "
He was walking on air. It was new feeling in his life.
In the dusk on Silom Road in Bangkok,
when everybody laughed, he laughed too.