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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Alone in a place full of strangers I sing as if I'm in the center of a heavenly choir —my tongue a cloud of honey— Sometimes I think I'm weird. Tokyo June 11, 1976
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Fish rise in the early summer evenings on the Nagara River at Gifu. I am back in Tokyo. I will never fish the Nagara. The fish will rise there forever but the Yellowstone River south of Livingston, Montana, that is another story. Tokyo…
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For Shiina Takako It is amazing how many people you meet when you are carrying a broken clock around in Tokyo. Today I was carrying the broken clock around again, trying to get an exact replacement for it. The clock was far beyond repair.…
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A few weeks ago a middle-aged taxi driver started talking to me in English. His English was very good. I asked him if he had ever been to America. Wordlessly, poignantly he made a motion with his hand that was not driving the streets of Tokyo…
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For Shiina Takako People stare at me— There are millions of them. Why is this strange American walking the streets of early night carrying a broken clock in his hands? Is he for real or is he just an illusion? How the clock got broken is not important.…
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Before flying to Japan I was worried about jet lag. "My" airplane would leave San Francisco at 1 P.M. Wednesday and 10 hours and 45 minutes later would land in Tokyo at 4 P.M. the next day: Thursday.…
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I just visited Kazuko at the hospital. She seemed tired. She was operated on six days ago. She ate her dinner slowly, painfully. It was sad to watch her eat. She was very tired. I wish that I could have eaten in her place and she to receive the nutriment.…
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For Tagawa Tadasu The Bullet Train is the famous Japanese express train that travels 120 miles an hour. Lazarus is an old stand-by. You listened to the ranting and raving drunken American writer on the Bullet Train from Nagoya as I blamed you for everything that ever went…
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Speaking is speaking when you (The next word is unintelligible, written on a drunken scrap of paper.) speak any more. Tokyo Perhaps a day in early June
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The actresses without their makeup, their costumes, their roles are returned to being mortals. I watch them eat quietly in a small inn. They have no illusions, almost plain like saints perfect in their re-entry. Gifu…
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I look out the car window at 100 kilometers an hour (62 miles) and see a man peddling a bicycle very carefully down a narrow path between rice paddies. He's gone in a few seconds. I have only his memory now. He has been changed into a 100 kilometer-an-hour…
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1. Have dinner by yourself. That's always a lot of fun. 2. Wander aimlessly around the hotel. This is a huge hotel, so there's lots of space to wander aimlessly around.…
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The distances of loneliness make the fourth dimension seem like three hungry crows looking at a worm in a famine. Tokyo June 6, 1976
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