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    Kome's Story

    for auntie nagasaki

    it's the same story

    told again & again

     

    the modulations

    & the machinations

     

    the maudlin

    & the dream

     

    schemes & data

    a million documents

     

    & a single story

    kome's

     

    she said she...

    Roy Miki
    b. 1942

    Ulysses

    It little profits that an idle king,

    By this still hearth, among these barren crags,

    Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole

    Unequal laws unto a savage race,

    That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

     

    I cannot rest from travel: I will drink

    Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy’d

    Greatly, have suffer’d...

    Alfred, Lord Tennyson
    1809-1892

    The Princess: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

    Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;

    Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;

    Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font.

    The firefly wakens; waken thou with me.

    Now droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost,

    And like a ghost she glimmers on to me.

    ...

    Alfred, Lord Tennyson
    1809-1892

    The Snow-Storm

    Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,

    Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields,

    Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air

    Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,

    And veils the farm-house at the garden’s end.

    The sled and traveller stopped, the courier’s feet

    Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit

    ...

    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    1803-1882

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