A VERY DIFFICULT OBJECT Poem by Shuntaro Tanikawa

A VERY DIFFICULT OBJECT



Its surface is colored gray and white, and its mass is clearly less than half a cubic meter. On one side are letters: Soft White Scottie® Free Fold. It contains precisely 400 sheets of soft white paper, and the utility of the paper is left up to the purchaser. Now, I pull out the first sheet and blow my nose. It occupies a certain space. Therefore it naturally follows the mode of existence in time. I cannot definitively state whether it is beautiful or ugly. Have I already told you readers what it is?

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