はあ～

えらいこっちゃぁ～

詩の内容をベースにお話を書くのが

こんなに難しく　苦しい～とは

思いも及ばなかったよ

って言うか、風邪のせいもあって

(ぐるぐる巻きにしてるよ、喉とか）

書いているうちに　うとうと、はっ、

ウトウト　はっ！なんだよね

アメリカ君も心なしか今日は

けだるい～感じだったし

ふわ～とかもろにあくびをしていたよなぁ～

やっぱり登場人物は

存じ上げてる方をモデルにした方が

一発で決まるよね～

と言うことで、

心を入れ替えて続きを書くことに

いたしますので、どうぞよろしく

愛読のほど　よろしくお願い申します

三毛猫詩人より

ＰＳ

あっ、あとね、札幌で一番の思い出は

サンヨーから出ている　フットマッサージ機

よかったなあ～　すごいいい気持ちだったな～

Happy Christmas

On board All Nippon Airlines’ Flight 942, Kohji waited for the plane to take off. He was tall and lean, in a business suit.

At a young age, he had had to move every few years because of his father’s profession as a bank clerk. He detested departing his friends among others, in addiont to adjusting school lives.

So, in his early twenties when he became a newspaper reporter and had to be on the road very frequently, he was rather surprised to find himself being very pleased with his almost daily flight life. Now in his forties, he still travels a lot as a network television personality.

When he arrived at the New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido, he heard some passengers say that a thick layer of snow coated parts of the runaways.

Out of the window of the airport limousine, he saw sidewalks covered with white snow and fields full of pristine snow. Alone but strong, a large white birch stood on the mother-earth in Chitose, the western city in the main northern island of the Japanese archipelago.

The snow kept falling all through the night, and the icy windows of his hotel were misty early the next morning. With every season passing by quickly in the vast land of Hokkaido, it was too early for bursts of light glinting over frozen streams under the blue winter sky.

Nevertheless, he liked the wintertime at Christmas. Precisely at 3 in the afternoon of December 24^th this year, he was standing in front of the café Montmartre in Sapporo, to meet Makiko.

Makiko was born in the picturesque port city of Otaru. On the coast of the Sea of Japan, it is located in the western part of Hokkaido.

Her childhood was accompanied by soft winds from the Otaru canals, the crystal green summer trees in the forest, and old-fashioned stone built architecture.

Her father runs an old glasswork shop, and her two brothers are highly rated glass workers in the town. After graduating from college in Sapporo to study nursing, she began to work in a modern hospital as a nurse there.

Happy Christmas 1 - two cities