>From "An Explanation of Japan"
For Irina A.S.
"Pachinko"
artificial flowers in garish colours like those found in funeral parlours
and the sound of Berlin, "every breath you take", and young guys on the make
in black suits with pubescent mobile phones stand guard as middle-aged
ladies in fluorescent yellow or green alight from ten thousand
yen bicycles and head for the "FEVER" machines where spheroids
from central impact move the momentum of money and the shopping trolley
mentalities and guys with punch perm sit with cigarettes and cancers
in attendance and suffer from haemorrhoids as the silver ball
spins and spins the coefficient of restitution a life lost to gambling
and the lcd is r-rated legs wide open like the Japan sea and the virtual
girl goes from customer to customer, the ball from bronze nail to nail
and the impulse of both, collude the desire for him or her and the silver
balls move with unknown velocities climaxing in the tulip catchers.
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