Tangled Hair/Man and Weeds

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Tangled Hair
by Akiko Yosano, translated by Shio Sakanishi
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Man and Weeds

When the wind blows, O weeds,
Why do you all turn in one direction?
Man does not so.
He turns according to his own bent.
What is good or what is bad,
He knows not.
He acts only according to his own proclivity.