Many things to catch you up on, that is if you’re the type to read words, I think you are, – annotations follow:
Poetry live stream: I did a poetry reading live stream for “Muriel’s journey” campaign from #Vancouver with my honourable-mention poem “small box of cereal” which some folks seemed to really enjoy
More poems: Later, since I was set up and for the folks who missed it etc. made a video of the aforementioned poem along with 3 others: alchemists confer with hypnotists; smiling on the inside; Osaka afternoon – it’s on YT with you know usual digressions, backs stories, fumbles and gratitude
Family lovenotes: Anyhow Ryoko and Ichiro left me a really sweet note before the recital which I performed from the caboose – so unbelievably sweet and great sketches
Out n About: Today, we we to meet (& hold <3) a friends new baby, then go eat stellar burgers, and then go to “Kodomo no mori” (kid’s forest) – which is a pretty good park but half of it was torn up for construction but you can’t win ’em all
I sat in a little hobbit house made out of a giant socket barrel and recorded a lousy version of Courtney Barnett’s song “avant gardener” on baritone ukulele
plus sent a video to a friendly family who live nearby but we couldn’t connect with because they were out exploring exotic rare frogs, yep // “”Bob Dylan lives!” came the reply. Indeed Bob was living at farm aid while I’m holding down the sake barrel hobbit house in Okayama
Postcards as usual: Also mailed 4 postcards (Japan, UK, Canada, US) – still catching up
Tree Doctor marathon….: Ryoko prepares for the “final boss” level of her tree doctor exam with a week in Ibaraki prefecture coming up, currently in the brain numbing zoom phase
Usual hospital: I go the Chinese medicine doctor on Friday (I haven’t caught you up on recent medical expeditions because I think you find it all quite boring and redundant,
[although I often share mug shots of me waiting for the bus so I can remember the dates, or sometimes a bit of observational poetry as might be expected]
Preschool: And Friday night Ichiro has a sleepover at his awesome forest preschool. Ryoko and I will probably spend a romantic evening packing her food kit, Hokkaido made mud boots, helmet etc. to get ready for her 5 1/2 hour long bullet train ride into the north east corner well… I don’t know somewhere away from here
Burgers: then we finally went to visit the new location of a burger place called Cozzy’s that we used to visit near to our favorite Ramen place, Gakucho
It’s now a little trickier here to find up a steep second floor staircase (me and my stair phobia) but inside was beautifully decorated and designed, and the food was excellent
Seriously they found the best avocado and all of Japan and sliced it perfectly from my burger
It shares a building with a craft brewery which once upon a time would’ve thrilled me but still I took a picture of the other bottled beers on offer while complementing the operators on the exception attentional detail
Vanish, now & again: Did I mention I’m working on the next poetry zine in the “daveo dispatch” series?
Each one will be signed, numbered, stamped and finished, this one is called “advocate: vanish now and again” and features Letraset letters, Lomo photographs, and poems featuring “witnessed my own autopsy” —
which now that I mention it sounds like a pretty heavy duty title, wrote it in 2016 {nothing to do with the Sylvia Plath book I’m reading currently}
Thank you for reading these notes, please tell me how I can amuse you further
