Chief Complaint: 

Poet.

Family History: 

The eldest daughter of three sisters. The second daughter has jealous delusions and the third has a sensitive nature.

Past Medical History: 

Myopia and narrow vision. Incidentally, her two younger sisters also wear bottle-bottom spectacles.

History of Present Illness:

She has suffered from hunger and emptiness since adolescence. She and her sisters frequent a steak restaurant, but she is unable to order for more than half an hour with the menu in her hand. When the nice waiter stares at her, her immediate younger sister tears the edges of the paper mat to shreds and the youngest sister begins to cry, so she loses her words which must be uttered. 

Diagnosis:

Not enough blood and flesh. 

Treatment: 

No medication required. Try making merry in the heat of sweat, oil and fried-garlic in a lunchtime restaurant crowded with well‐muscled workers. Rhythm on a plate with a knife and fork to the kinky music as background sound, then a sweet silky voice will leak out from her butter-slick shining lips.  

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hiromi suzuki is a poet, fiction writer and artist living in Tokyo, Japan. She is the author of Ms. cried – 77 poems by hiromi suzuki (Kisaragi Publishing, 2013), logbook (Hesterglock Press, 2018), INVISIBLE SCENERY (Low Frequency Press, 2018), Andante (AngelHousePress, 2019), Found Words from Olivetti (Simulacrum Press, 2020), Ephemera (Colossive Press, 2021), Isolated Life (psw gallery, 2023). Double solo exhibition with Francesco Thérès visual HAIKU | OLIVETTI poems was held in Rome, 9 ～30 September 2021.

Note: Basque Grilled Steaks is a part of the first poetry collection Ms. cried – 77 poems by hiromi suzuki (kisaragi publishing, 2013 ISBN978-4-901850-42-1). The poem written in Japanese has been translated by hiromi suzuki, 2023.