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"Day Trip."

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"'It looks like the
States,' someone murmurs.

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And we stare at the
wideness of the road,

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the space spent on
boulevards where

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Tokyo has multiple stories
of everything, lights

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and stairwells and alleys
that twist against themselves

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like human intestines.

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Hiroshima is drivable.

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It has space for
the sun to expand.

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We've been told to
try the okonomiyaki

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here, a word that means
whatever you like, grilled.

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The Peace Park is
the greenest space

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in this plant-loving city.

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They've hung chains
of origami on a rod

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so that the chains and
chains of paper cranes

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look like jackets
and party colors.

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Clothes for a manic phase.

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Think your hometown
pride parade.

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Think Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat.

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Think of something else.

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Try to sing for the
cranes, dona nobis.

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And here we begin to see
the false beauty of harmony

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give us, give us as obscene
will bring us passion.

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In the museum a lunch
box, it's open and black.

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Inside, the sign says,
it held some rice.

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I'm pretty sure there's
some fish as well.

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I remember the color,
the mass, the blacks.

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I can't see the child
without the mess that's

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left of her window, the
crumbling fuzz of ash,

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the shadows of stains.

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We opened locks.

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Okonomiyaki turns out
to be a savory pancake.

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Mine has egg and squid
and a breath of something

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terribly familiar."