Japan Nuclear Disaster Update: the Michio Kaku CNN Interview

Followup from our friend, Scott Watson, from Sendai, Japan, on the ongoing nuclear disaster in Japan, in the form of a link to a CNN interview with famed nuclear physicist, Michio Kaku.  Not much more needs to be said if you truly absorb the facts as laid out here.

timing his death
extremely well...
the Buddha

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,

Don

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Richard Brautigan: Two Poems

Today is the anniversary of the birthday of one of the most original, reviled, inventive, maligned, loving, oft summarily dismissed, American poets of, well, all time: Richard Brautigan. Here are two poems from his late volume, June 30th, June 30th, a poetic journal of his first trip to Japan.

Japan

Japan begins and ends
----with Japan.

Nobody else knows the
----story.

. . . Japanese dust
in the Milky Way.

Tokyo
May 18, 1976

Homage to the Japanese Haiku Poet Issa

Drunk in a Japanese
----bar
----I'm
----OK

Tokyo
May 18, 1976

All these years later, we still miss you, Mister B.


And two birthday poems for Richard by Master Issa

paying no heed
to Buddha's birthday...
wildflowers



Buddha amid birthday flowers--
even the moon
deigns to rise

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don