In a departure from our usual somber posting, I've written an original prose-poem, which is for a friend's upcoming "Where is the Romance" theme party in Tokyo--a pre-valentines's day event. I've been in Japan (not just Tokyo) for over twenty years now and it seems to me that this city as overpopulated as it is,...
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