Alex

Index cards found, crumpled, in the third floor dorm room trash.


Card 1

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Poetry slam, Hi-life Lounge, 3rd March

Hi, I'm Alex Yamamoto
I have a selection of poems from my
years at the monastery
I dedicate these to my master with respect.

(energy!)

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Card 2

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This is a Haiku I wrote when I was seven.
It is titled Ladybug.

(pause and breathe)

Ladybug, ovoid
caught from above. Flash!
(show photo of ladybug)
dewdrop aflight.

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Card 3

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This is a poem I entered in the slam last year.
It is entitled, "Things."

(pause, breathe in energy)

Things
Things are not what they seem.
You cannot know what I mean.
Quick! Don't think about A Gainst.
A
Gast.
A
Propos.
A
Droit.
Are these things things at all?
Language tells us yes
and no

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Card 4 [a red X crosses the card]

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Things (cont.)

But how can we know?
"Because language tells us so."
Without words
there are no things.
No me, no you.
no-thing.

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Card 5

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This is called Eat. It is
[Line crossed out]

(deep breath, relax)

Eat
First I ate everything
But there was no body to digest it

Then I ate fistfuls of sand
To prove my resolve

I chewed on bones of the ancestors
to get to the marrow

Now I eat poison
to kill the self

to be free
to eat once more.

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Card 6
[written in colored pencil]

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Dr Davies, 415-254-____

-Alan Ginsburgh "Howl"
(library?)

MEGAN
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