Ant Breath アリの呼吸

Twenty 呼吸している ants are placed in a 呼吸できない glass jar, about which they are not extremely happy.

し after あ some わ time, せ their と movements も slow down, 言えな い and あ all り of た us ち with は half a とてつもなく heart く decide る to し set い the ants free よ.

The jar is opened わ~うれしいわ! and the ants flee in a maddo ba- sutingu obu enerugii.

The jar is closed again 空と思ったら a sealed, cloudy container full い っぱいだ よ of the tortured breath of innocent ants.

from The Ants (Les Figues, 2014), by Sawako Nakayasu