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No breathing room between the buildings, which means unagi restaurants rubbing shoulders with telephone clubs, and estate agents sharing walls with sex shops. Busy electric signage and pachinko parlors waving banners. Seal-engraving businesses whose owners never bothered coming in. Video arcades that looked anything but fun.

Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett, • Breasts and Eggs

The sorting room is vast – the size of a small city block with an equally large population: men sorting packets and parcels and bulk mail and letters; men running machines; men dividing the post into neighbourhoods and streets, ready for local delivery; men pushing York trolleys around the floor; men laughing; men shouting.

Loree Westron • Missing Words

“Musicals…are often put together at the last moment by many gifted people operating in a creative panic.” - Humphrey Burton, in his biography of Leonard Bernstein

Urban Haiku

Vape smoke in the air

Bikes and scooters whizzing by

Dog days in the hood

A lexigraph of “uproar” (46 entries):

uproar (n.) : an event that disturbs a pre-existing order; ranging from trivial misunderstandings to devastating violence; accompanied by sound. 1520s, German/Dutch: “to stir up.” Middle English, roar: “…a loud, continued sound.” Typically negative, but sometimes turns to humor from de-escalations and clarifica

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