Japanese Pop Music Concert
Don't ever ever forget
the flowers
that were rejected, made
fools of.
A very shy girl gives the
budding boy pop star a bouquet
of beautiful
flowers
between songs. What courage
it took for her to walk up to
the stage and hand him the
flowers.
He puts them garbage-like down
on the floor. They lie there.
She returns to her seat and watches
her flowers lying there.
Then she can't take it any longer.
She flees.
She is gone
but the music
plays on.
I promise.
You promise, too
Tokyo
May 31, 1976
źródło: June 30th, June 30th
o źródle i prawach
tekst z archiwum "american dust" (brautiganarchives.xyz); z tomu "June 30th, June 30th" (Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1978)
11.06.2026