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Ken Ueno's Travelogue
18 - Tokyo
What I see is a thick band of graya line that elides the end of day
into the beginning of night
the space
between
stretched out over many years
perhaps a lifetime,
when we begin
we are already beginning
to end
That gray band
is in the motoric animation
of the lower jaw gnawing
regular pulsations
at the upper lip -
the space
left vacant by absent dentures;
the tight grip -
that obscures the sheet's edge
into the hand;
the irregular breathing -
in which are lost
traces almost words;
the increased heart rate -
seemingly responding
to proximity;
the eyes -
a miracle of human effort opening
in coincidence to
one calling
his name
This foreign language
of physical gestures
recorded, on this day,
a gray band
transcribing
in what little we can
understand
our hopes
that which
we want to
interpret as
signs of
life
continuing...
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