June 30th, June 30th
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Bee Caves on the map.
The map means nothing
to you sitting here watching
me.
Tokyo
June 29, 1976
Very drunk
with Shiina
Takako watching
me
Land of the Rising Sun
sayonara
Flying from Japanese night,
we left Haneda Airport in Tokyo
four hours ago at 9:30 P.M.
June 30th
and now we are flying into the sunrise
over the Pacific that is on its way
to Japan
where darkness lies upon the land
and the sun is hours away.
I greet the sunrise of July 1st
for my Japanese friends,
wishing them a pleasant day.
The sun is on its
way.
June 30th again
above the Pacific
across the international date line
heading home to America
with part of my heart
in Japan
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN
is forty-three years old and has written
eighteen books. He is an internationally
known author whose work has been
translated into fifteen languages,
including eight books that have been
translated into Japanese.
Table of Contents
Dickinson’s Russian
Introduction
Kitty Hawk Kimonos
Crow
Japanese Children
Cat in Shinjuku
The Hillary Express
Kites
Japanese Model
Romance
Pachinko Samurai
Japan
Homage to the Japanese Haiku Poet Issa
Dreams Are like the [the]
Strawberry Haiku
A Mystery Story or Dashiell Hammett a la Mode
A Short Study in Gone
The 12,000,000
Shoes, Bicycle
A Study in Roads
Floating Chandeliers
Japanese Women
Taxi Drivers Look Different from Their Photographs
Sunglasses Worn at Night in Japan
Japanese Pop Music Concert
Future
Talking
Chainsaw
Day for Night
Cobalt Necessity
Real Estate
The Alps
Japan Minus Frogs
On the Elevator Going Down
A Young Japanese Woman Playing a Grand Piano in an Expensive and Very Fancy Cocktail Lounge
A Small Boat on the Voyage of Archaeology
American Bar in Tokyo
Ego Orgy on a Rainy Night in Tokyo with Nobody to Make Love to
Worms
Things to Do on a Boring Tokyo Night in a Hotel
Travelling toward Osaka on the Freeway from Tokyo
After the Performance of the Black Tent Theater Group on the Shores of the Nagara River
Fragment #1
Lazarus on the Bullet Train
Visiting a Friend at the Hospital
Eternal Lag
The American in Tokyo with a Broken Clock
The American Fool
The American Carrying a Broken Clock in Tokyo Again
The Nagara, the Yellowstone
Writing Poetry in Public Places, Cafes, Bars, Etc.
Cashier
Tokyo / June 11, 1976
Meiji Comedians
Meiji Shoes Size 12
Starting
Passing to Where?
Tokyo / June 13, 1976
The Airplane
Orson Welles
The Red Chair
The Silence of Language
It’s Time to Wake Up
Fragment #2 / Having
Looking at My Bed / 3 A.M.
Taxi Driver
Taking No Chances
Tokyo / June 24, 1976
What Makes Reality Real
Unrequited Love
The Past Cannot Be Returned
Fragment #3
Two Women
Fragment #4
Illicit Love
Age: 41
Two Versions of the Same Poem
Stone (real
Land of the Rising Sun
Richard Brautigan