How (Soon Is) Now, Tsing Tao?
2008-03-17 16:00:00
Chinatown, Saturday Night.
Slow moving rivers of people, families, and arm-locked couples meandering aimlessly in-and-out of restaurant-lined alleyways. Bicycles blocking entrances. Letters and numbers scrawled on walls like graffiti secret code.
I’m in a pub hidden on the second floor of a souvenir shop/massage parlour; barely a room that’s overrun with postcards, posters, and photo albums of [...]
13 Degree Anonyanimosity
2008-03-21 16:00:00
Downtown Shinjuku.
Who knows exactly where, or cares, after midnight…
Zombie drunks siphoning booze from discarded bottles of cup sake. Into the bins like crows.
And I’m somewhere in the clubs you never hear about, underneath the down below. Hypnotically detached - my stare transfixed by snaking queues of impeccably-dressed adolescents trying to get in to see Teenage [...]
Jury-rigged
2008-03-27 08:00:00
Fumbling, mumbling…
I haven’t got a direction today.
In a fix. A jam. A bind.
Bound, but not tied.
Came loose.
Undone.
Now grappling, struggling with my tattered strings.
Fumbling, mumbling…
It’s the trying that gets in the way.
Or so it seems whenever I do.
「People shifting moving pictures wandering lost art in museums;
nobodies like scavengers haunting midnight premises,
picking through flash magazines, turning pages [...]
Bōkūgō
2008-04-03 08:00:00
Air-raid Shelter Entrance, Ofuna
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Culture Shockolates
2008-04-05 16:00:00
Why is it that the Japanese can go on-and-on about, have magazine articles and television series analyzing, the various peoples and cultures of the world, flippantly perpetuating stereotypes and misinformation as simple logic and absolute truth; but whenever speaking about their own, always assuredly remark, adamantly insist, that the Japanese have traditionally been, and will [...]
Hinomaruwarui I-VI
2008-04-09 16:00:00
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Are You So Well?
2008-04-13 16:00:00
Impeccably disappointed - you are…
…impossible to bear.
And something says you’re on your way again, do you don’t you dare?
The spinning plates we broke from before, still on the floor, remember them?
Watch where you step, the hurt’s right there, or is that just what you intend?
Autopilot set, I am crashing at the count of ten…
I start [...]
Yokohamaekinai, 4 a.m.
2008-04-17 08:00:00
Inside Yokohama Station, 4 a.m.
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Oblivious In Tokyononymous - Part I
2008-04-21 16:00:21
Mr. Ii is once again in an acrimonious mood; feeling exhausted, depressed, and sick of it all.
He’s disappointed in himself, moreover, in Japan’s society macabre.
We call ourselves cultured, refined, unique…maybe once upon a time ago, but look at us now: we’re selfish, self-centered, social disasters.
imPosture and peacock show. All pretense on the outside, because there’s [...]
Complicatediously Plainsong Four
2008-04-25 16:00:00
Thursday night, SaRa’s wine and Thai bar in Ginza 7-chome.
Outside, rain.
Inside, cozy at a table in the darkest corner of the room, Mizuki reflects into Cabernet Sauvignon.
“The wind’s blowing like it’s the end of the world,” she whispers.
I look at her, comforted by the fact it’s her I’m here with tonight. It’s been a month [...]
Innuenduende
2008-04-29 08:00:43
If I am…
I do not know
and no one can tell
or will,
maybe.
…I am
sometimes
I think
I’m sure
but THINKING must mean
I am NOT
at least
ALL the time.
…there is a door
that opens
or LOCKS
I am not sure
but I’m
ALWAYS
on the other side
and WRONG.
…and LOST!
within myself
inside myself
I fear.
…the hurt
COMES
from a lack of control.
giving it up
to the other me,
the who the who am I?
…nonsense
MAKING sense
something
sometimes
is [...]
Mirai Mienai Machigainai
2008-05-03 08:00:00
Japan’s blight future
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Desiccant Thief
2008-05-09 08:00:00
I am the new way of thinking
of sinking
of drinking…
I’m drinking again, liquoring neon gin.
Say it slow-like, now
and you might understand,
let me be the ethereal spark for your kerosene soul.
Can you hear me?
Who can hear me?
Not me, I never listen to myself at all.
I abandoned me for you, but you’re not there.
Never were, never will be…
You [...]
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Ruder than Weirds
2008-05-13 16:00:30
Yokohama Station, West Exit.
Nine o’clock’s approaching and the mad dash is on.
I’m at Joinus, on the corner between the Sotetsu-sen and Yokohama Blue Line, watching the morning, the day, this so-called life unfold…
…The old retirees in front of Daiwa Securities anxious for the share price boards to begin predicting their futures; the blatantly smoking in [...]
Stalking With Your Mouth Fool - Part I
2008-05-19 16:00:00
Tanaka has a problem.
A peculiar situation, rather.
It began almost a year ago: an email in his in-box, not addressed or sent to him directly, something automatically forwarded by a “Contact Us” link at a website he once started but never finished. The message it contained was wordy, but polite - a harmless, “I found you [...]
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