The Past Cannot Be Returned
The umbilical cord cannot be refastened and life flow through it again. Our tears never totally dry. Our first kiss is now a ghost, haunting our mouths as they fade toward oblivion. Tokyo June 19, 1976…
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Unrequited Love
Stop in / write a morose poem / leave / if only life were that easy Tokyo June 19, 1976
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What Makes Reality Real
Waiting for her . . . Nothing to do but write a poem. She is now 5 minutes late. I have a feeling that she will be at least 15 minutes late. It is now 6 minutes after 9 P.M. in Tokyo. —NOW exactly NOW— the doorbell rang.…
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Tokyo/June 24, 1976
As these poems progress can you guess June 24, 1976? I was born January 30, 1935 in Tacoma, Washington. What will happen next? If only I could see June 24, 1976. Tokyo June 18, 1976
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Taking No Chances
I am a part of it. No, I am the total but there is also a possibility that I am only a fraction of it. I am that which begins but has no beginning. I am also full of shit right up to my ears. Tokyo June 17, 1976
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Taxi Driver
I like this taxi driver, racing through the dark streets of Tokyo as if life had no meaning. I feel the same way. Tokyo June 17, 1976 10 P.M.
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Looking at My Bed/3 A.M.
Sleep without sleep then to sleep again without sleeping. Tokyo June 17, 1976
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Fragment #2/Having
I found the word having written sideways, all by itself on a piece of notebook paper. I have no idea why I wrote it or what its ultimate destination was, but I wrote the word having carefully and then stopped…
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It's Time to Wake Up
I set the alarm for 9 A.M. but it wasn't necessary. The earthquake at 7:30 woke me up. From the middle of a dream I was suddenly lying there feeling the hotel shake, wondering if room 3003 would soon be a Shinjuku intersection 30 floors below.…
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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.…
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The Red Chair
I saw a decadent gothic Japanese movie this evening. It went so far beyond any decadence that I have ever seen before that I was transformed into a child learning for the first time that shadows are not always friendly, that houses are haunted,…
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Orson Welles
Orson Welles does whisky commercials on Japanese television. It's strange to see him here on television in Tokyo, recommending that the Japanese people buy G & G Nikka whisky.…
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The Airplane
One of the bad things about staying at a hotel is the thin walls. They are a problem that does not go away. I was trying to get some sleep this afternoon but the people in the next room took that opportunity to fuck their brains out. Their bed sounded like an old airplane…
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Tokyo/June 13, 1976
I have sixteen more days left in Japan. I leave on the 29th back across the Pacific. Five days after that I will be in Montana, sitting in the stands of the Park County Fairgrounds, watching the Livingston Roundup on the Fourth of July, cheering the cowboys on,…
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Passing to Where?
Sometimes I take out my passport, look at the photograph of myself (not very good, etc.) just to see if I exist Tokyo June 12, 1976
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Starting
Starting just a single world start (start) v.i. 1, begin or enter upon an action, etc; set out. to end with. Tokyo June 12, 1976
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Meiji Shoes Size 12
For Shiina Takako I woke up in the middle of the afternoon, alone, our love-making did not lead to going to bed together and that was OK, I guess.…
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Meiji Comedians
For Shiina Takako Meiji Shrine is Japan's most famous shrine. Emperor Meiji and his consort Empress Shôken are enshrined there. The grounds occupy 175 acres of gardens, museums and stadiums.…
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Tokyo/June 11, 1976
I have the five poems that I wrote earlier today in a notebook in the same pocket that I carry my passport. They are the same thing.
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Cashier
The young Japanese woman cashier, who doesnt like me I don't know why I've done nothing to her except exist, uses a calculator to add up the checks at a speed that approaches light—…
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