solitude and the Babel Fish
Australia, it's a simple process. Really
Find your favorite poems. Read them once to absorb their gist, get moved by their softness; let the musical words dance on your tongue and in your ears. Let your heart dance with the inner workings of the poem.
Now destroy. Here’s how:
Copy the poem.
Paste it in the AltaVista Babel Fish automated translator.
Translate it from English to Japanese.
Translate the generated text from Japanese back into English.
Enjoy.
Here are a few examples of one of my favorite poets, Leonard Cohen.
Anthem
The birds they sang
at the break of day
Start again I heard them say
Don't dwell on what has passed away
or what is yet to be.
Japanese and back:
The bird which is sung
with the being broken
eye of start of day
I hear for the second time
cross or the thing or not
living in order to say
to those which still are proper.
Dance Me To The End Of Love
Dance me to your beauty
with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic
'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and
be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Japanese and back:
I the end of love the end of love comparatively
comparatively with rise like the branch of the olive,
until me it gets together safely,
the pigeon of my homeward voyage me who dance it is I who dance,
me dance me with the panic which dances in your beauty of the very hot violin
Tower of Song
Well my friends are gone
and my hair is grey
I ache in the places
where I used to play
And I'm crazy for love but I
'm not coming on I'm just
paying my rent every day
Oh in the Tower of Song
Japanese and back:
The going my friend gushes forth, as for my hair
I me insanity am fair I who playing am normal
am I for loving, but it is I pain of gray of the place
where it has not come, everyday Ohio state
of the tower of song is paid to my rent
The Future
Give me back my broken night
my mirrored room, my secret life
it's lonely here, there's no one left
to torture
Give me absolute control
over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby,
that's an order!
Japanese and back:
Life of my secret lonely
here the room to which I am projected
the night when I am broken in me,
with gives, everyone who should bend
unreasonably there the left to give,
in me all absoluteness control of the mind
which has lived there is on a side of the baby
my order, it is!
Find your favorite poems. Read them once to absorb their gist, get moved by their softness; let the musical words dance on your tongue and in your ears. Let your heart dance with the inner workings of the poem.
Now destroy. Here’s how:
Copy the poem.
Paste it in the AltaVista Babel Fish automated translator.
Translate it from English to Japanese.
Translate the generated text from Japanese back into English.
Enjoy.
Here are a few examples of one of my favorite poets, Leonard Cohen.
Anthem
The birds they sang
at the break of day
Start again I heard them say
Don't dwell on what has passed away
or what is yet to be.
Japanese and back:
The bird which is sung
with the being broken
eye of start of day
I hear for the second time
cross or the thing or not
living in order to say
to those which still are proper.
Dance Me To The End Of Love
Dance me to your beauty
with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic
'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and
be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Japanese and back:
I the end of love the end of love comparatively
comparatively with rise like the branch of the olive,
until me it gets together safely,
the pigeon of my homeward voyage me who dance it is I who dance,
me dance me with the panic which dances in your beauty of the very hot violin
Tower of Song
Well my friends are gone
and my hair is grey
I ache in the places
where I used to play
And I'm crazy for love but I
'm not coming on I'm just
paying my rent every day
Oh in the Tower of Song
Japanese and back:
The going my friend gushes forth, as for my hair
I me insanity am fair I who playing am normal
am I for loving, but it is I pain of gray of the place
where it has not come, everyday Ohio state
of the tower of song is paid to my rent
The Future
Give me back my broken night
my mirrored room, my secret life
it's lonely here, there's no one left
to torture
Give me absolute control
over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby,
that's an order!
Japanese and back:
Life of my secret lonely
here the room to which I am projected
the night when I am broken in me,
with gives, everyone who should bend
unreasonably there the left to give,
in me all absoluteness control of the mind
which has lived there is on a side of the baby
my order, it is!
