Melting Things

(in remembrance of the infinite moments leading up to thanksgiving in japan, year 2000) Melting Thingsthe framed photos of flowers in the corridors of hotel maruyama (and the orgasmic moans of the girl in a nearby room) the light-contact shiatsu massage/ the no-contact part of it the gradated blue of tiled bathroom the bottom of the sea where only fish go the higher part where man swims the earth the sky where planes can go the outer reaches of the sky the purity of mankind [fade to white] "it's better to have a beautiful sleep than to watch stupid japanese television"the history of the kabuki theatre and it false pretensions to nobility eye-ball licking narcotic napping waking up to the silky whisper of flesh-on-flesh