Documentary
A Contest To Cut Down 100 People!
(Tokyo Nichi-Nichi Shimbun, Nov. 30, 1937)
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Scores were taken
to lift the boredom
of repetition,
the same gestures
slaughter commanded:
the one who returned
with most trophies (evidence
of the once living,
the defeated) would have
the chance
for a photograph, the size
of conscience, to be snapped and
posted in the bulletin - The bones
of some guy
I cut down in Lingkou
chipped my sword in one place.
But it’ll still be able
to cut down 100
or 200
people
I’m sure -