Word: tokio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tokio Rose has attracted as many partisans as foes. "Jesus Christ--Wonderful, wonderful--This is great! My god! You say what many think but are uncomfortable saying or even thinking--i.e.=me," reads one scrawled comment below "Dirty." "Fucking brilliant imagery," declares another. Some, like "Oedipus," offer encouragement: "Tokio--Baudelaire said, 'Every idea is endowed with immortal life.' Keep writing." (Tokio's elliptic response: "Get drunk.") Others offer their own verses, like this one addressed "To Tokio...
...Tokio's enemies who write most vehemently. "B.H.L." dismisses much of the work on the poetry board as "a bunch of useless, profane, empty words." "Grow up people," B.H.L. advises. It doesn't take brains to use the world 'fuck'." Tokio's response in the margin: "What the FUCK do you mean by that? It does take brains to use it effectively. You're just afraid of the word 'cause mom & dad don't like...
...want us to save the world using this poetry board!" writes Tokio incredulously. "Art is not responsible for socio-political problems, etc. and is, in my opinion, not particularly suited to being a forum to discuss such issues...
...Tokio, obscenity--as beauty--is ultimately an instrument of social good. "All these geniuses who believe in our moral obligation to save the world as Harvard students post only malevolent comments on this board and fail to bless the poor masses with the beauty of their poetry," Rose raves. "Oh poop...
...around the poetry board, students drowse and old books sigh, unwittingly caught in a silent crossfire of "poop" and "shit." Tokio Rose's poems, and the diatribes they have inspired, are curling in the dry air; occasionally a sheet floats down to the floor, revealing a dark blue rectangle of unfaded construction paper...