to think
it was another day
going to the bay
catching fish
being at the dinner table
with the grandmother,
the fisherman,
the farmer,
the child,
eating to our hearts' content
to think
it was another day
in 1908,
when we welcomed Chisso Corp
with open arms
in fact,
we invited
your workers
over for fish
but they insisted
at the dinner table,
“oh no! do not burden us like this!”
but they knew that the fish
were not the same
it was because they
produced fertilizers
with toxic chemicals
released
into our majestic Minamata
because of you
the Minamata Disease was born,
a neurological syndrome
by mercury
causing the brain to be torn
we soon realized
our fish,
our animals,
our bay,
our people,
were not
the same
the grandmother,
it was another day
going to the bay
catching fish
being at the dinner table
with the grandmother,
the fisherman,
the farmer,
the child,
eating to our hearts' content
to think
it was another day
in 1908,
when we welcomed Chisso Corp
with open arms
in fact,
we invited
your workers
over for fish
but they insisted
at the dinner table,
“oh no! do not burden us like this!”
but they knew that the fish
were not the same
it was because they
produced fertilizers
with toxic chemicals
released
into our majestic Minamata
because of you
the Minamata Disease was born,
a neurological syndrome
by mercury
causing the brain to be torn
we soon realized
our fish,
our animals,
our bay,
our people,
were not
the same
the grandmother,
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