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Kettle by Shoko Kashima

January 2006

NEW:  Four Factorial
NEW:  Nothing fictional but the accuracy or arrangement (she
REVISED: call for insects: here
THANK YOU: to everyone that let me stay with them this fall 
Photo: Chicago, IL - November 2005

LADYBUG
for Takako Arai

 I am looking for my friend who promised to meet me on this street at a time that’s right about now, except we failed to specify exactly at which part of the block we would meet, and even then it should not be a problem because I know exactly what my friend looks like and I am not seeing her at all anywhere on the block. I ask around, to the local shopkeepers, but they haven’t seen her either and I look around some more and I still don’t see her but fortunately we are in Japan and everyone has cell phones and right then she calls and says to look behind me, and I do and I still don’t see her, and she says look down, and I do and I still can’t find her, and she says she is under that pile of swarming ladybugs right there and I am horrified but she says she is having a good time and that I should come and join her and I walk away and that was the sad end of our friendship.



January 29, 2006
Sawako Nakayasu
e-mail: sawako at gmail.com
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