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A PAIN “Weeds already hid the ashes, and wild flowers were in bloom among the city’s bones. The bomb had not only left the underground organs of plants intact; it had stimulate

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HIROSHIMA DRAGON What the American men really wants is two things: he wants to be blown by a stranger while reading the newspaper and he wants to be fucked by his buddy when he is

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Now Here, Kytakyusha, Japan, October 2024 Death is lighter than a feather, but Duty is heavier than a mountain. Osamu Dazai The Nippon Zen Master says that I must attend the wake.

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Now Here, Kytakyushu, Japan, September 2024 Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” —Japanese proverb. Google Maps almost killed adventure,

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The Way of Harmony “In Martial Arts, speed is not the true Way. As far as speed is concerned, the question of fast or slow in anything derives from failure to harmonisee with the

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Kokura, Japan, September 2024 The Nippon Zen Master (NZM) buys the coffee from abroad. Then roasts it and grinds it. I thought that I was drinking the best in the world. It is soot

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I. Now Here, FK’N’OAK, September 2024 I open my eyes inside the cabin. My body feels foreign and I have become left-handed overnight, so it seems. There’s a song playing on r

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I. Nowhere. You Are Alive and They are all Dead. Marrakech, April 2019. I wake up under a vaulted skylight. I can’t move but I can make the shape of a minaret at an angle, its go

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Nowhere, NOW HERE, March 2024 What I’m about to tell you is the most dreadful injustice I have ever witnessed, the end of my life, as I knew it, and the beginning of a travelling