RANDOM street murals
REALLY good
COFFEE
maybe not even
in the morning
copenhagen
I have always thought
would be
BEAUTIFUL
SCANDINAVIA
has always been
INTERESTING
to me
I got exposed to trolls
& CLOGS
pretty
young
in high school
I had a collection of clogs
from the SWEDISH shop
in the village
that was ALL I WORE for shoes
I probably had kind of sneakers
AND
I had this Japanese happi coat
it was polyester
I'm SURE
it had the GREAT WAVE on the back
& SOME portion of the
REST of the jacket
was RED,
black
BUT
a LOT of it
was that
BLUE
and white
MAN
I was thinking about that jacket
the other day
I got it at the renaissance festival
they had a japanese village
SHOGUN had entered
the zeitgeist
&
EVEN though my mom
didn't really
LET ME
watch
TV
I
had managed to
CONVINCE
HER
it was an important enough
CULTURAL
EVENT
she let me watch it on the
LIKE
twelve inch black & white television set
& SOME of it
I watched in COLOR at my gran Gran's house
I can't remember
EXACTLY
WHAT
I thought of it
I THINK I had
SOME
problems with stuff that happened
I remember the guy
who threw away
the bird
he had to
and then they had to
KILL him
& he was proud to have done it
& NOT bitter that they were
KILLING him for DOING
the THING that
HAD
to be done
that they were grateful for him to have done
it upset me
BUT
the guy BELIEVED in rules
I think there was some other stuff
I don't think it was the STORY
that grabbed me
so much as
the place
OR culture OR art OR whatever
SO
I MEAN
I guess I was one of the people
who wanted the
SHOGUN
village
OR whatever it was called
BUT
that GREAT WAVE
was important to me
