A Story In
100 Words
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Accompaniment
Almost every morningit’s the same old ambient toss-up:Susumu Yokota or Lazybatusu.
Some days, neither flips his switch;some days: nothing but nothing. Silence.(He neither needs nor wants either one.)
Some days—especially days he’s up early—he just sits and types, humming his own theme:he calls it Lazysusubatsumu Yakotoma.
He hums and writes and writes againuntil everything comes out right,or his fingers start to bleed.
Even then, though,intent on his missionhe encourages the hemorrhage.
He’s stumbled onto something good;he’s just got to keep at ituntil it sings on its own.From Guest Contributor Ron. Lavalette
Ron.’s debut chapbook, Fallen Away (Finishing Line Press) is now available at all standard outlets. Many of his published works can be found at EGGS OVER TOKYO.
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