The American in Tokyo with a Broken Clock
For Shiina Takako
People stare at me—
There are millions of them.
Why is this strange American
walking the streets of early night
carrying a broken clock
in his hands?
Is he for real or is he just an illusion?
How the clock got broken is not important.
Clocks break.
Everything breaks.
People stare at me and the broken clock
that I carry like a dream
in my hands.
Tokyo
June 10, 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