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Work  027

Total Direction
by Hideo Yokokawa

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Distance, Time and Space



In Newark

IC Passport.

Fingerprints by computer system at the immigration.
The time is wriggling in parallel in a curious way.

Hungarian President points out
the violation of personal rights caused by
the immoderate measures against the terrorism.

4 citizens were killed by gun for no reason in Newark because of entanglements during the basket ball games. As if being nothing to do, TV also reports that 235 persons in total were killed by guns in New York up to now in the first half of this year, the number of which is 5 percent less than last year. The time seems like inactively stagnating over here.

In Elizabeth

Spring Street

The serene lodge just beside the highway.
Centering on the reception,
close rapports with other visitors every morning are there.

Hazard Place

The misty rain.
The time to be recorded which disappeared faraway.

In North Bergen

The main purpose of this trip
to see a friend after a lapse of 3 years,
searching for our possible future
of the same generation..

In Manhattan

Fifth Avenue

A big demonstration of the churches' people
from various cities against prejudices and discriminations..
Waving PFLAG's flooded in the avenue.
Marching Pride.

Madison Avenue

Still standing gravely outside the time,
the building of the black granite is shining in the rain,
just the same as 18 years ago.

East 54th Street

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon on a Thursday in November, 18 years ago, we left the office and walked with folded arms one another breezily to the Indian restaurant bar which was 2 blocks away from the office, where

we sat down face to face with a table in between, chattered, laughed out laud, talked about poetry and lightly kissed a kiss of friendship over the table; enjoying foods and drinks; then late at night, we could listen to the poetry reading by an actor wearing a turban with a rhythmically trilling pronunciation in a resonant voice.

Glancing at her wrist watch, she said.
"Wow!, it's already 11:30, I have to go home quick,"
and she stood up.

After paying the bill, I went outside chasing her and found her standing beside an yellow cab which had just stopped there.

"What kind of perfume do you wear? It's a very nice fragrance."
"Perfume?, Oh! I don't wear any perfume. It's my habit to
shampoo every early morning."

Without a time of my touching her, she got into the car.
The car left there silently.

In the Plane

The time passing very slowly.
The huge distance exceeding ordinariness.

Flying where now?