S&R Poetry: “Tokyo in the Underbrush” by Dan Ryan | Scholars and Rogues
source: http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2011/08/07/sr-poetry-tokyo-in-the-underbrush-by-dan-ryan/
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What happens when you cross a searing photoessay documenting homelessness in Tokyo with poetry like this?
"My flesh is parched and broken from the cigarette I put out in my palm. It was curious to’ve done such a thing, I know; but for agony, alleys are best. To scream in, to sit in, and chew the bubble-gum bits before gangrene sets in.
This, then, is concrete, polished with dust. A banquet of oil and rubber beneath my shoes. Fitting food for my king of the feast, who can afford to die slowly as cancer’s camp ground yet cannot afford an ashtray."
"My flesh is parched and broken from the cigarette I put out in my palm. It was curious to’ve done such a thing, I know; but for agony, alleys are best. To scream in, to sit in, and chew the bubble-gum bits before gangrene sets in.
This, then, is concrete, polished with dust. A banquet of oil and rubber beneath my shoes. Fitting food for my king of the feast, who can afford to die slowly as cancer’s camp ground yet cannot afford an ashtray."
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