The Work of Pablo Naruto

Reflections on life, love, ramen, Sasuke, etc. from the Poet Laureate of the Village Hidden in the Leaves.

[pablo-naruto]

Iruka Sensei IV

Come with me, I said, and no one knew where, or how my tummy throbbed. No slurping of noodles for me, only the wound that hunger had opened.

Come with me, I said again, as if dying, and no one saw that my chakra was flickering out or the angry mark that rose upon my forehead. Sensei, now we can forget that thorny pain!

That is why, when I heard your voice repeat, Come with me, it was as if you’d let loose sorrow, love, and the fury of a corked wine,

its fountains flooding from deep in its vault: in my mouth was the taste of ramen again, of fish cake and bonito, of onion and ow I burned my mouth!

inspiration

[pablo-naruto]

Love Sonnet XI

I crave your frowning mouth, your harsh voice, your pink hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Ramen does not nourish me, training disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a plump ramen noodle, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole fish cake.

I want to eat the chakra flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, like a nine-tailed demon fox in the barrens of the Uchiha compound.

(inspiration) 

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[pablo-naruto]

'Perhaps not to be is to be without your being, ramen'

Perhaps not to be is to be without your being, ramen, without your going into my tummy, that soothes my hunger like a blue flower, without your passing later through stomach and intestines, without the chopsticks I lift in my hand that others may not see as golden, that perhaps no one believed blossomed the glowing origin of double pork ramen, without, in the end, your being, your coming suddenly, inspiringly, to know my tummy, blaze of the fire, wheat of the noodles: and it follows that I am, because you are: it follows from ‘you are’, that I am, and we: and, because of hunger, you will, I will, We will, come to be. 

inspiration

[pablo-naruto]

Fuzzy Brows 1

The caterpillars seem to float of their own volition. I fear I have been poisoned, or given some substance to make me hallucinate. But then I see the face attached to them, a very stupid and ugly face talking to Sakura about some bullshit. Who does this guy think he is? LEAVE HER ALONE, FUZZY BROWS!

[pablo-naruto]

Sasuke 9

Chakra through the soles of my feet, and I am off. In the corner of my eye, a blur,

and you are parallel to the ground. And you are running up.

SASUKE!!!!

[pablo-naruto]

Sasuke 1

In fall, I see a change in the way we walk.

Bracing for winter, each step feels akin to the first step into a defensive stance, or as though I am preparing for Rasengan.

SASUKE!!!!