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hello kitty has no mouth.
hello kitty, created in 1974 by yuko shimizu, has no mouth.
hello kitty's mouth was the zippered opening
of the vinyl coin purse where she first appeared
soft and gaping and ready to be filled with cash.
sanrio says she is mouthless because she is universal
mouthless because she speaks all languages
mouthless because she can feel any emotion
depending on how you look at her
endlessly reproducible
the perfect commodity
mouthless so she can be immortal.
she did gain a mouth once
in 1987, on hello kitty's furry tale theatre
her first television show
she could actually talk.
in the last episode, the little matchstick girl,
she shivers in the cold
lighting match after match to keep herself warm
until the last one grants her a vision of heaven
and the snow covers her dead little body.
a hello kitty with a mouth can end the cycle:
she can speak, and thus finally be silent.
goodbye, kitty.
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mori ogai wrote a short story in 1890.
mori ogai wrote a short story, "the dancing girl," in 1890.
mori ogai wanted to write a short story
like the german ones he had been translating
but written japanese didn't have an "I" exactly
didn't have the pronoun exactly, not in the way german did
didn't have first person narration quite yet
so the first scene is in a crowded saloon of a ship
and the narrator describes who is not there:
not the shipmen, not the card players, not anyone
except for one person, sitting on a bench
looking at the empty room
who must be the narrator, since he's the only one left.
and so mori ogai created a first person
by eliminating everyone else.

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japanese has three scripts.
japanese has three scripts, kanji, hiragana, and katakana.
japanese has three scripts, and katakana is blocky, angular
used for telegrams, and onomatopoeia, but mostly for foreign words.
a thousand years ago, it was used as a reading guide
for buddhist scripture, a way to give sound and order
to dense chinese characters rendering holy sanskrit truths.
in the 1980s, katakana was used for computer text
its simplicity so well-­‐suited to the screen
it was as if those monks putting brush to page ten centuries before
had pixels in mind all along.
in the poetry of kiriu minashita, katakana is a virus,
infecting her language, interrupting her thoughts with a cold machinic voice
a videogame opponent to the possibility of expression:
password is incorrect. don't talk back. press start to continue.
and katakana was used, over and over again
by poet survivors of the atomic bombings
trying to record their experiences in the immediate aftermath
their normal script rendered useless
by that which could not be described
leaving only pages and pages of stark, angled writing:
language rendered foreign from itself,
language become sound effect,
telegrams from the end of the world.