The Silence of Language
I'm
sitting here awkwardly alone in a bar
with a very intelligent Japanese movie director
who can't speak English and I no Japanese.
We know each other but there is nobody here
to translate for us. We've talked before.
Now we pretend to be interested in other things.
He is listening to some music on the phonograph
with his eyes closed. I am writing this down.
It's time to go home. He leaves first.
Tokyo
June 15, 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