Ego Orgy on a Rainy Night in Tokyo with Nobody to Make Love to
The night is now half-gone; youth goes: I am in bed alone —Sappho…
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American Bar in Tokyo
I'm here in a bar filled with young conservative snobbish American men, drinking and trying to pick up Japanese women who want to sleep with the likes of these men. It is very hard to find any poetry here as this poem bears witness. Tokyo…
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A Small Boat on the Voyage of Archaeology
A warm thunder and lightning storm tonight in Tokyo with lots of rain and umbrellas around 10 P.M. This is a small detail right now but it could be very important a million years from now when archaeologists sift through our ruins, trying to figure us out.…
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A Young Japanese Woman Playing a Grand Piano in an Expensive and Very Fancy Cocktail Lounge
Everything shines like black jade: The piano (invented Her long hair (severe Her obvious disinterest (in the music she is playing. Her mind, distant from her fingers, is a million miles away shining…
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On the Elevator Going Down
A Caucasian gets on at the 17th floor. He is old, fat, and expensively dressed. I say hello / I'm friendly. He says, "Hi." Then he looks very carefully at my clothes.…
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Japan Minus Frogs
For Guy de la Valdène Looking casually through my English-Japanese dictionary I can't find the word frog. It's not there. Does that mean that Japan has no frogs? Tokyo June 4, 1976
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The Alps
One word waiting . . . leads to an avalanche of other words if you are waiting . . . for a woman Tokyo June 2, 1976
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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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