I cough a little,
it sounds muffled, like a thump --
on a concrete wall.
Novel "Sekai no owari to Hado-boirudo Wandarando" (1985, "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World", 1991, Haruki Murakami), chapter 1, 'Elevator, silence, overweight'
Collection "Within the walls"
