Three Collections at the Risk of Repetition

do they sell chopsticks at Disneyland?
do they converge in absence?
do they lock their leaves and anticipate kilometers?
do they immerse their casuals in soap?
do they separate with pause?
do they tinge their table with plates?
do they know Hon Lin closes at 9:30?
do they dispute their skin?
do they disturb their smiles in anonymity?

do they emerge in clothes purchased after the war?
do they accumulate in accidents?
do they “want to multiply, even at the risk of repetition?”
do they isolate in beverage?
do they acquire between dance rehearsals?
do they arrive in Japanese speaking their favorite dialects?
do they avoid summer for ten years?
do they insert during cleavage?

**

33 days ago: her skin on an escalator
25 days ago: walk 10 minutes to Shimbashi Station
24 days ago: she was asked to sign a picture
09 days ago: Internet cafe at Shimbashi
12 days ago: kendo practice, stop in floral shop
35 days ago: find myself in Shimbashi with an hour before 6
05 days ago: haiku clients speaking tea
46 days ago: selling reggae clothes in Osaka
13 days ago: volleyball girl flips in mid air before she spikes

25 days ago: 20 anatomy questions wrapped in twine
61 days ago: “a dog which you have never had before has sighed”
11 days ago: proposal: wild geese gasp from her nipples
04 days ago: waitress avoids Shimbashi dwarf in his hotel room
33 days ago: feet sitting in her address
24 days ago: sumo practice in August
27 days ago: succulence implicit in climate
31 days ago: beverage stain crops stadium map
88 days ago: instead of taking a shower, she prefers to squat

63 days ago: asking clearly with plate, as she platter t-shirt plums
17 days ago: deceived by adhesive trimmings
11 days ago: door appears smaller in ice
91 days ago: shirts have tongue: “we are merely servants”
55 days ago: souvenirs stray, partials deceive skin
67 days ago: Hara Sestuko occurs in conversation
82 days ago: cassette scraping on pavement
73 days ago: deceived by cleavage, she wasn’t
89 days ago: exacting shirt with Chinese contortionist

**

Hara Setsuko is horrified to discover her mother is pregnant
Hara Setsuko tells her husband that her mother has just had a baby and he’s the father
Hara Setsuko arrives at the hospital to take her mother home
Hara Setsuko duplicates daughter, permitting herself to film
Hara Setsuko opens the menu with her hair combed short
Hara Setsuko is bathing in beverage with cassettes pasted on her wet skin
Hara Sestuko contains tangerine scars
Hara Sestuko disappears from the morgue
Hara Sestuko is suitable to endorse The Mongolian Cow Sour Yogurt Super Girl Contest
Hara Sestuko flips in mid air before she spikes

Hara Sestuko admits after a bath
Hara Sestuko participates beverage in class
Hara Sestuko easily irritated by anatomy questions
Hara Sestuko subscribes to sumo practice in August
Hara Sestuko prepares her spine on paper
Hara Sestuko inserts film
Hara Sestuko concedes to detergent package

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 30

Monday, January 30

“female pigs are fierce masturbators”

how many clues
in cleavage
how

many wild geese
gasping from
her

nipples “of glue,
swimsuits and
ghosts”

imposed by skin
mannequin lower
half

“films in which
buildings do
not

appear" tongue tears
from same
sentence

maid arrives missing
one arm
extra

Shanghai $60: how
many swimsuits
in

Superman: dance does
not hide
him

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 29

Sunday, January 29

:how many clues
in cleavage
:how

many wild geese
gasping from
her

nipples: “of glue,
swimsuits and
ghosts”

imposed by skin
mannequin lower
half

“films in which
buildings do
not

appear" question: how
many swimsuits
in

Superman: dance does
not hide
him

***

scissors interrupt tongue
tears from
same

sentence same ambulance
same hospital
same

scissors scrape skin
same nurse
arrives

missing one arm
extra Shanghai
$60

“female pigs are
fierce masturbators”
:“rollers

apply pesticide to
the deer's
neck”

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 28

Saturday, January 28

street map to Toho University Hospital drawn in pencil

“there’s fence when I miss you terribly”

Mitsukoshi, left escalator, 3rd floor
Pureta Porute Salon (women wear
Masako

she shook her head, reaching for a cigarette
beer on the table

a crowd of people on bridge waiting for festival

“she would call me by mistake the names of people who were dead”

cyclamen needs water

Ebana 2 – 12:00 taxi
Kiri 3 – cassette, 120 mns
Petty Knife Bar, ocha in narrow bag
Tomobe Masahito: Daremo Boku No E O Egake Nai- daro
Akiyoshi Kumiko: Inai Inai Ba

5/24 Monday 7:00, John: blue film
6/24 Thursday, kabuki with Fufu (meet at Mitsukoshi
8/02 Monday, call Koya, Kamakura with Fufu
8/06 Friday 12:00, Ginza Sony: Eriko leaves for Hiroshima to join Kakinuma Circus

infinity in reverse

letter found in desk: from John, 1977(excerpt

dear ray,

a classmate of one year, a tortured American who went to Vietnam
believed it from the Midwest stayed in Japan for five years
put a plastic bag on his head and gassed himself last week. news

today i went to first funeral
an 18 year old boy trembling voice broke down sobbing
nun took his hand

my head cut to porno, she undresses
pain is so private

**

at Roppongi kosaten
guzen ni saw circus girl and friend passing by

everyone wants to hear from ray

love and phantasmagoria,

John

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 27

Friday, January 27

tambourine that was
to give
often

emerge in four
days : was
speaking

slow her “rehearsal
extract” : pose
exceed

45 minutes expect
its splittage
visit :

extra Shanghai: $60
“female pigs
are

fierce masturbators” : “rollers
apply pesticide
to

the deer's neck”
recipient solicits
skin

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 26

Thursday, January 26

Cat Power: The Greatest (2006
four tet: everything ecstatic (2005

extra Shanghai: $60
“female pigs are fierce masturbators”

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 25

Wednesday, January 25

“ sitting for a
haircut” : (72
mins

throwing knives to
injure : kilometers
dusk

Internment: Nagai, Kafu
Zoshigaya Cemetery
1959

add wasabi mayonnaise
2 tablespoons
vagina

oil, marinate 30
minutes at
room

temperature, stirring occasionally
keeping center
pink

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 24

Tuesday, January 24

wind velocity Libyen
recipient solicits
skin

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 23

Monday, January 23

Augustus Pablo: East of the River Nile: 1977
Hugh Mundell: Africa Must Be Free: 1983

explain her eyes
: “ tea and
oranges ”

weather favoring fabrics
spring accumulate
cows

: clothes he says
tinge angular
frequent :

: “everything I make
is made
to

measure” : Luxus bent
to scale
(vinyl)

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 22

Sunday, January 22

found

anonymous: dick has
changed. red
darsid:

nabeh, just because
I don’t
update,

you dissidents come
about. Put
em

up will ya
Put em
up

***

: glass abrupts aquarium
, kittens delay
in

lemon: Los Angeles
Monogatari absconds
to

Bolivia : legs ache
, lull peculiar
slouches

: foliage affirms moisture
“ long, extended
conversations ”

film Shibuya furniture
, Dogen-zaka
dialogue

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 20

Friday, January 20

> “ mind’s arrangement with
regard to
certain

objects ” Andre Breton,
Nadja > “ Distance,
rather

than absorption, is
the intended
effect ”

Barrett Watten, Total
Syntax < “ kiss,
bus,

so ” Charles Bernstein,
Islets / Irritations >
“ Letters

occur on the
page at
intervals ”

Bob Perelman, a.k.a.
> “ They will
sit

beside me rather
than stand
up

on the bus ”
Ron Silliman,
Tjanting >

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 19

Thursday, January 19

wasabi mayonnaise

“rollers apply pesticide to the deer's neck”

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 18

Wednesday, January 18

Bonobo: Animal Magic: 2000

swimsuit interrupts tongue
: define lacrimal
: same

tears from sentences
: maid arrives
missing

one arm : thieves
disguised as
health

inspectors rob bank
: Misora Hibari
question

****

February 28 incident
ghost visits
daughter

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 17

Tuesday, January 17

grated radish on salmon

same mannequins missing arms
same eyes blurred in tears

same address
same name different face

same dance commitments

Wong Kar-Wai
interrupts Korean
woman

speaking Japanese : dance
commitments: performing
two

shows on Thursday
: vocalist snags
complexion

swimmers soak in
fluorescent attendance
: clothes

everywhere explain weather
: was Basil
to

Berman , her dancing ?
Bruce Conner
Breakaway

" Arielle after a
haircut , Paris
1982 "

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 15

Sunday, January 15

The In-Kraut: Hip Shaking Grooves Made in Germany: 1966 – 1974
Barrington Levy: The Early Years: 1983
B Fleischmann: Pop Loops for Breakfast: 2005

same ambulance
same hospital
same scissors scrape skin

same lacrimal apparatus
same tears from Gertrude Stein

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 14

Saturday, January 14

“ of glue , swimsuits
and ghosts
imposed

by skin ” : “ mannequin
lower half “
: “ you

could have thrown
in one
cleavage

” : wild geese gasping
from her
nipples

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 13

Friday, January 13

“ window in torso
where sparks
are

visible ” : scrape vinyl
: furniture fills
with

soft rentings : rue
bent to
vanilla

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 12

Thursday, January 12

anata no motte
ita koto
no

nai inu ga
tameiki o
tsuita

Gertrude Stein : a
dog which
you

have never had
before has
sighed

how to write
page 27
1931

(gs translated in japanese hay(na)ku

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 11

Wednesday, January 11

12 days ago :
you said
to

Sadako when she
was driving
you

home : how many
swimsuits in
Superman

: dance does not
hide him
: wait

20 minutes before
you kiss
, he

likes to wear
clothes : is
there

darkness in foliage
23 days
ago : “

what is a
sentence with
tears ”

Miles Davis 1958
calendar still
December

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 10

Tuesday, January 10

swimsuit
folds in
beverage : suppose you

said
to Sadako
when she was

driving
you home : “
insert during cleavage “

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 9

Monday, January 09

¾ Had Been Eliminated: A year of the aural gauge operation (Hapna 2005

3
and 4
eliminate from floors

4
walls falling
before or will

contain
41 stairs
erased with optional

takes
2 spaces
reminiscent female vocalist

Kuroneko: 1968

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 7

Friday, January 06

France Gall: Hippie Hippie (1967)

same
name , different
face : Jennifer explain

suggestive
option : puppet
submerged in Chinese

actress
costume : infection
lingers on tongue


Saturday, January 07

man
balances donkey
on ladder with

his
teeth : “ ghost
visits his daughter ”


Souvenirs from New York

“ he
was able
to attend high

school
by promising
to plant rice ”

Soba
- ya : Train
: L to 3rd

Ave
; 6 to
Aster Place : “ He

died
before you
were born , before

this
rain began
to fall “ : Baobab

Souvenirs from New York

Souvenirs from New York
(2 months later)

“ there’s
no more
frogs downstairs , brought

them
all up
producing an image

through
the removal
of paint rather

than
its application
“ : 1.8 seconds : vinyl

**

Souvenirs from New York

535
W 22nd
Street , 3rd Floor :

“ pools ,
parking lots
and gas stations

” : 511
W. 25th
Street , Suite 101 :

“ vertebrae
continuo ” : 530
W 25th Street ,

2nd
Floor : “ estimated
landscapes ” : 527 W.

26th
Street : “ tail
( exercise in punctuation ) ”

**

Souvenirs from New York

“ somebody
wants to
buy your apartment

” purse
embossed with
knife : graffiti tags

collected
in jars
: radio 8 minutes

Marlowe
responds to
Prince Far I

**

Souvenirs from New York

2
notebooks in
brown : Film Forum

Calendar :
Naruse Retrospective
Nov 14 : three

shamisen
daughters attempt
Kawabata (1935) 6:30

9:30
: Amy and
Jordan question : “ if

you’re
going to
kiss my daughter,

you’ll
have to
kiss me first

” : don’t
wait more
than 20 minutes

“ what
glue did
you use ? ” : “ seaweed ”

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 5

Thursday, January 05

as when Toshiro folds Sadako's clothing
“of glue, swimsuits and ghosts”
attract Mambo predictable
plates to question dub

how
many acquires
in dance rehearsal

“kaiju obscurity”

Bollywood actress in swimming costume

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 4

Wednesday, January 04

how
we acquire
between dance rehearsals

“pickles, licorice and ice-cream”

Diagramas de ametralladora stein

“you could have thrown in one cleavage”

Jakuen: a boarding house for students (1970s

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 3

Tuesday, January 03

decide
when to
, especially if she

kisses
very early
in paper : afternoon

chairs
in coffee
: recipient solicits skin


is
there darkness
in foliage ? standing

under
the open
garage door she

wanted
to climb
accidents : Café Lumiere :

Hou
Hsiao-Hsien
impersonates Ozu Yasujiro

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January 2

Sunday, January 1

recipient
solicits skin

coffee spills on thumb
flood weather at 2:00
visit 2 dogs but no walks

is
there darkness
in Bangkok ? standing

under
the open
garage door she

wanted
to chase
sirens we thought

were
accidents : Café Lumiere :

Hou
Hsiao-Hsien
impersonates Ozu Yasujiro


**

“ the
attention is
on the relationships

between
the characters
rather than their

reactions
to the
event ”

Monday, January 2

turns room hoarding new hair

same desk since 1969

things so pleasant to see :
toy dishwasher : white : 1970s (made in China
Quimby The Mouse (two-headed Chris Ware

: four
months included
weather : soldier vomits

vagina
: page 45
: New National Kid

s

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes January1

Sunday, January 01

address :
click defective
be spotted she

might
not complain
to play this

season
for her
velvet part wasn’t :

there
floor with
wrapped pillows pour


**

“things so pleasant to see”

tattooed
man at
carnival : Diane Arbus

wall
installation with
urinal : Robin Rho(de)

calf
abandoned in
formaldehy(de) : Damien Hirst

shoes
concealed in
surgical stitches : Doris

Salcedo
: erased (de)
Kooning : Robert Rauschenberg

tongue
near stain
teases amputee : Dzama