Out by Natsuo Kirino Groundswell Speaker 2024 drug smuggling

drug smuggling

Long Live Evil or Assistant to the Villain

salts and fizzies

and includes many previously uncollected poems

She remembers winters from childhood

Out by Natsuo Kirino Groundswell Speaker 2024 drug smugglingIn the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead end lives. A young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philandering, gambling husband. She confesses her crime to her colleagues and unexpectedly, they agree to help. But then the dismembered body parts are discovered, the police start asking questions