Real Estate
I have emotions that are like newspapers that read themselves. I go for days at a time trapped in the want ads. I feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house:…
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Cobalt Necessity
It's just one of those things. When you need cobalt nothing else will suffice. Tokyo June 2, 1976
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Day for Night
The cab takes me home through the Tokyo dawn. I have been awake all night. I will be asleep before the sun rises. I will sleep all day. The cab is a pillow, the streets are blankets, the dawn is my bed. The cab rests my head. I'm on my way to dreams.…
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Chainsaw
A beautiful Japanese woman / age 42 the energy that separates spring from summer (depending on June) 20 or 21 —so they say—…
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Talking
I am the only American in this bar. Everybody else is Japanese. (reasonable / Tokyo) I speak English. They speak Japanese. (of course) They try to speak English. It's hard. I can't speak any Japanese. I can't help. We talk for a while, trying.…
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Future
Ah, June 1, 1976 12:01 A.M. All those who live after we are dead We knew this moment we were here Tokyo June 1, 1976 12:01 A.M.
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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.…
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Sunglasses Worn at Night in Japan
A Japanese woman age: 28 lives seeing darkness from eyes that should see light at night. Tokyo May 30, 1976
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Taxi Drivers Look Different from Their Photographs
There is no difference between Tokyo and New York. These men do not look like their photographs. These are different men. I'm not being fooled in the least. Complete strangers drive these cabs. Tokyo May 28, 1976
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Japanese Women
If there are any unattractive Japanese women they must drown them at birth. Tokyo May 28, 1976
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Floating Chandeliers
Sand is crystal like the soul. The wind blows it away. Tokyo May 28, 1976
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A Study in Roads
All the possibilities of life, all roads led here. I was never going anyplace else, 41 years of life: Tacoma, Washington Great Falls, Montana Oaxaca, Mexico London, England Bee Caves, Texas Victoria, British Columbia Key West, Florida San Francisco, California…
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Shoes, Bicycle
Listening to the Japanese night, the window is closed and the curtain pulled, I think it is raining outside. It's comforting. I love the rain. I am in a city that I have never been before: Tokyo. I think it is raining. Then I hear a storm begin. I'm slightly drunk:…
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The 12,000,000
I'm depressed, haunted by melancholy that does not have a reflection nor cast a shadow. 12,000,000 people live here in Tokyo. I know I'm not alone. Others must feel the way I do. Tokyo May 26, 1976 1 P.M.
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A Short Study in Gone
When dreams wake life ends. Then dreams are gone. Life is gone. Tokyo May 26, 1976
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A Mystery Story of Dashiell Hammett a la Mode
Every time I leave my hotel room here in Tokyo I do the same four things: I make sure I have my passport my notebook a pen and my English— Japanese dictionary.…
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Strawberry Haiku
. . . . . . . . . . . . The twelve red berries Tokyo May 22, 1976
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Dreams are like the [the]
Dreams are like the [the] wind. They blow by. The small ones are breezes, but they go by, too. Tokyo May 20 or 26, 1976
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Homage to the Japanese Haiku Poet Issa
Drunk in a Japanese bar I'm OK Tokyo May 18, 1976
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Japan
Japan begins and ends with Japan. Nobody else knows the story. . . . Japanese dust in the Milky Way. Tokyo May 18, 1976
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