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Homage to theJapanese Haiku Poet IssaDrunk in a JapanesebarI’mOKAmerican Bar in TokyoI’m here in a bar filled withyoung conservative snobbishAmerican men,drinking and trying to pick upJapanese womenwho want to sleep with the likesof these men.It is very hard to find any poetryhereas this poem bears witness.The American in Tokyo witha Broken ClockFor Shiina TakakoPeople stare at me—There are millions of them.Why is this strange Americanwalking the streets of early nightcarrying a broken clockin his hands?Is he for real or is he just an illusion?How the clock got broken is not important.Clocks break.Everything breaks.People stare at me and the broken clockthat I carry like a dreamin my hands.