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Thom World Poet Austin, Texas, USA
Global Radical networker and activist for promoting the live Creative Arts,
at every possible opportunity, especially in his home-city, Austin, Texas, USA


Saturday, March 19, 2011

why "Tsunami"is a Japanese word

space is defined via time-Woodstock 1969
Hiroshima,Nagasaki 1945..Konitchiwa!
Godzilla black and white monsters to Manga
Graphic movies dolphin slaughter,minamata
This radiation scares even the Emperor
Sendai wiped off the map.10,000 lost-
harken back to siege of Nanking/Japan surrendering
Japanese printed Occupation Currency(Australia=
mini-subs in Sydney Harbour,Zeros bombing Darwin
Grandfathers remember Bataan death march,Bridge on the River Kwai
Prisoner of war camps.Beheadings and tortures.
Tortured by stories in time/flown in after Hiroshima
Fantasy world soaks up their psychic ether
Science fiction becomes fact.Age of samurai fades like Kurosawa.
Memories of a Geisha/The Mikado.Japanese for foreigners is..
Nikon.Samsung.Gold leaf eating Corporations
Sanyo.Sushi.Pearl Harbour-did we know?Haiku
Another language,another culture.Surrender
100% of industrial materials imported.Fear
Defining sea borders with China/Russia
Earthquake emotional architecture.Mahakari.
Household altars to ancestors.Lotus/lights floating poems
Stone Buddhist monasteries/gardens.Raw as fish and radiation poisoning
The Japanese  for "tsunami"is devastation.

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