Welcome to the Tokyo Poet Website. Access is simple and straightforward. Just press one of the links below to reach poems about a particular place or theme. Clear thought is always difficult, so if youre thinking of employing a mental stimulant, I strongly suggest making it a double.
HISTORY ENDS
Storms gather, armies clash in the night, but if this is actuality what are the odds some raggedy-assed sloppy old bugger standing around an illegal trash barrel fire drinking cheap rotgut comes up with absolute answer to absolutely everything? Day by day we pass the hat around our Planet, not because its easy, but because we want to raise a few eyebrows. Somewhere rain begins to fall. The sun fails. A postal worker suddenly loses it. These ominous signs point to a false reality at the wholesale level, one where analysts estimate early life forms first crawled out of the sea. Discovering the origin of the Universe and if God could create a Chevrolet so big he couldnt lift it baffle the Chinese like Plato and Walt Disney. History ends, stocks rally. Scholars now believe in the future our forefathers will turn to the past, just as their fathers turned to future generations who were forced to live on anything left behind. Look down for a second and – BOOM – Brand New Ball Game! Nobody remembers Newt Gingrich. Everythings in the Top Three. Elvis is just some stale old fart who has left the building. Raising the bar on the backs of the poor raises all boats, but unless Swami Semtex gets a wake-up call from beyond the grave, authorities announce they will soon be dragging the river from the bottom up. History ends, Obama puts up a brick. Tokyo, Monday, 02/06/12
HORSING AROUND
Alright Kiddies! No more horsing around in the showers with Coach Passrush. Time to get serious. And I dont mean learning meat cutting in your spare time, or auto repair, or switching to a cheaper smart phone provider. Times are tough: Italian Prime Ministers partying with high-class hookers while the economy goes to Hell; U.S. Senators hooking up with undercover cops in airport washrooms; Japan Incorporated promising to do their best while covering up nuclear meltdowns. You name it, its probably happening. Nowadays youve got to work hard for everything you get. Whoops! THIS JUST IN!! Worst Candidate Wins Presidential Primary. Analysts say Mr. Braindead won by promising to ban gay marriages and bomb Iran. Also Cuba. And Mexico. China. Tibet. Venice. Loser withdraws vowing to spend more time with family on Mars. Thats right Kiddies. Time to wake up and smell the coffee. The Reagan/Bush years are over . No more fake roofing scams. You wont have that Big Future in aircraft maintenance, carpet cleaning or flogging salad crispers on late-night tv after you fail high school. The only way we will get out of this mess is if we have real change, drastic reform – change from the ground up – complete reconstruction of the whole global system: moral capitalism, ethical politics, honest values, a warm wonderful world where no one has to work, an equal, just world where everyone gets a free X-Box, an in-home theater tv, the latest apps, plenty of Big Macs, French fries. Coke Zero, everybody is nice to everybody: Goldman Sachs goes bowling with Occupy Wall Street; the West Bank Settlers double-date with Hamas; you can watch the NEWS without throwing up. Tokyo, Wednesday, 02/01/12