Nikutai no Naka no Koseidai
("Paleozoic Within the Body")

Tentai Jidai Genshi no
Kaiyou Shinshoku Taiseki
Sanjuuokunen Seimei
Tanjou Chishitsu Jidai
Kanburia Orudobisu Shiruru Debon
Sutorosutoraito Bakuteria Korenia
Sanjou Juraki Hakuaki

Hikagenokazura Iwahiba
Pureuromeia
Kaitonia Bennechitesu
Anmonaito
Uminobara Uminoyuri
Umiringo Umitsubomi
Umitenshi Umikagami
Umitobira Umikagerou
Sekitan Nijouki Koseidai

Uminoanata Uminowatashi
Nikutai no Naka no Koseidai
Ikitsuzukeru
Shinitsuzukeru
Katarikakeru Koseidai

Kujira no Youni
Iruka no Youni
Azarashi no Youni
Umi no Soko e Umiwatashi
Umi no Soko no Dairekishi
Boku ga Boku suru Umi no Soko

Anmonaito

Astrologic eras,
Primeval oceans, erosion and sediment
Three billion years,
Genesis of life, geologic eras
Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian,
Stromatolite, bacteria, collenia.
Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous.

Lycopsida, selaginella,
Pleuromeia.
Caytonia, bennetites,
Ammonite.
Oceanic Rose, Oceanic Lily,
Oceanic Apple, Oceanic Flower Buds.
Oceanic Angel, Oceanic Mirror,
Oceanic Gate, Oceanic Haze.
Carboniferous, Permian, Paleozoic.

The Oceanic You, The Oceanic Me,
are the Paleozoic within the body.
Continuing to live,
continuing to die,
the Paleozoic telling the story.

Just like the whale, I go
Just like the dolphin, I go
Just like the seal, I go
to the bottom of the sea, the oceanic me.
At the bottom of the sea, a grand history.
to the bottom of the sea, where I will be me.

Ammonite!