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----- Original Message -----
From: "Araki Yasusada" [log in to unmask]
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2002 1:53 AM
Subject: Re: Hoaxes and Heteronymy interview
Dear Mr Bircumshaw
Esteemed sir, I thank you for your correspondence on this
subject. Until
recently, I was most unknowing of these matters, as English I
have not long
met, but I would be thanking if you would let know a wider world of
truth.
Johnson Kent's theft of my name and life is of great distress to
me, more so
made by it being like but not like truth. A poet I am, yes, and of
Hiroshima, but I was not even born at Ground Zero time. My father
it was who
lived at then, revered ticket collector on Japanese railway as he
was, and
though I write haiku no renga they are as always they have been
written.
What is this verse that is called 'free'? Who are these American
poets, I
have never heard of any, why have I received no royalties from
works
published in my name. Mr Ito, my friend, who works for a law firm,
says I
have legal claim for recompensation. I do not eat fuku.
Johnson Kent has much to answer for.
Yours, respectfully
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