Stone (real)
I guess I moved to Texas: Bee Caves on the map. The map means nothing to you sitting here watching me. Tokyo June 29, 1976 Very drunk with Shiina Takako watching…
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Two Versions of the Same Poem
Love / 1 The water in the river flows over and under itself. It knows what to do, flowing on. Love / 2 The water in the river flows over and under itself. It knows what to do, flowing on.…
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Age: 41
Playing games playing games, I guess I never really stopped being a child playing games playing games Tokyo June 28, 1976
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Illicit Love
We did not play the game. We played the rules perfectly, no violations, no penalties. The game is over or is it just beginning? Tokyo June 28, 1976
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Fragment #4
in a garden of 500 mossy, lichen green Buddhas a sunny day these Buddhas know the answer to all five hundred other Buddhas. Never finished outside of Tokyo June 23, 1976…
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Two Women
/ 1 Travelling along a freeway in Tokyo I saw a woman's face reflected back to us from a small circular mirror on the passenger side of the car in front of us. The car had a regular rearview mirror in the center of the front window.…
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Fragment #3
speaking is speaking We repeat what we speak and then we are speaking again and that speaking is speaking. Tokyo June sometime, 1976
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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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