I feel wonderful, exhilarated, child-like, perfect. I just won two cans of crab meat* and a locomotive** What more could anyone ask for on May 18, 1976 in Tokyo? I played the game of pachinko / vertical pinball / My blade was sharp. *real **toy
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I just spent fifteen seconds staring at a Japanese fly: my first. He was standing on a red brick in the Mitsui Building Plaza, enjoying the sun.…
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Tall, slender dressed in black perfect features Egyptianesque She is the shadow of another planet being photographed in a totally white room Her face never changes her page-boy hair looks as if it were cut from black surgical jade…
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A warm Sunday afternoon rainy 4 o'clock back street Ginza is closed. Thousands of napping bars, their signs are like brightly-colored kites. Wound ball-like narrow streets and lanes are string.…
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I just ordered my first meal curry and rice all by myself in a Japanese restaurant. What a triumph! I feel like an infant taking its first faltering step. Watch out Mount Everest! Tokyo May 16, 1976
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A brown cat lies in front of a Chinese restaurant in a very narrow lane in Shinjuku.* The window of the restaurant is filled with plastic models of Chinese food that look good enough to eat. The afternoon sun is pleasantly warm. The cat is enjoying it.…
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I just spent the last half-an-hour watching a Japanese children's program on television There are millions of us here in Tokyo. We know what we like. Tokyo May 14, 1976
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This morning I was wondering when I would see my first bird in Japan I was betting my mental money on a sparrow when I heard a rooster crowing from a backyard in the Shibuya District of Tokyo and that took care of that. Tokyo…
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Watching Japanese television, two young women in kimonos are standing beside a biplane. That's right: an old timey airplane. A man is interviewing them. They are having a very animated and happy conversation.…
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When I was a child I had a graveyard where I buried insects and dead birds under a rose tree. I would bury the insects in tin foil and match boxes. I would bury the birds in pieces of red cloth. It was all very sad and I would cry as I scooped the dirt into their small graves…
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Baudelaire went to the insane asylum disguised as a psychiatrist. He stayed there for two months and when he left, the insane asylum loved him so much that it followed him all over California, and Baudelaire laughed when the insane asylum rubbed itself up against his leg like a…
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Baudelaire went to a baseball game and bought a hot dog and lit up a pipe of opium. The New York Yankees were playing the Detroit Tigers. In the fourth inning and angel committed suicide by jumping off a low cloud. The angel landed on second base, causing the whole infield…
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"Are you or aren't you going to eat your soup, you bloody old cloud merchant?" Jeanne Duval shouted, hitting Baudelaire on the back as he sat daydreaming out the window. Baudelaire was startled. Then he laughed like hell, waving his spoon in the air like a wand changing the room…
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"The Chinese read the time in the eyes of cats," said Baudelaire and went into a jewelry store on Market Street. He came out a few moments later carrying a twenty-one jewel Siamese cat that he wore on the end of a golden chain.
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Baudelaire opened up a hamburger stand in San Francisco, but he put flowers between the buns. People would come in and say, "Give me a hamburger with plenty of onions on it." Baudelaire would give them a flowerburger instead and the people would say, "What kind…
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Baudelaire used to come to our house and watch me grind coffee. That was in 1939 and we lived in the slums of Tacoma, My mother would put the coffee beans in the grinder. I was a child and would turn the handle, pretending that it was a hurdy-gurdy,…
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Baudelaire was sitting in a doorway with a wino on San Francisco's skidrow. The wino was a million years old and could remember dinosaurs. Baudelaire and the wino were drinking Petri Muscatel "One must always be drunk," said Baudelaire. "I live in the American Hotel,"…
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Baudelaire was driving a Model A across Galilee. He picked up a hitch-hiker named Jesus who had been standing among a school of fish. feeding them pieces of bread. "Where are you going?" asked Jesus, getting into the front seat. "Anywhere, anywhere out of this world!" shouted…
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There are doors that want to be free from their hinges to fly with perfect clouds. There are windows that want to be released from their frames to run with the deer through back country meadows.…
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Her face grips at her mouth like a leaf to a tree or a tire to a highway or a spoon to a bowl of soup. She just can't let go with a smile, the poor dear. No matter what happens her face is always a maple tree Highway 101 tomato.
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