Yu Miri

"Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu's life is tied by a series of coincidences to Japan's Imperial family and to one particular spot in Tokyo; the park near Ueno Station - the same place his unquiet spirit now haunts in death. It is here that Kazu's life in Tokyo began, as a labourer in the run up to the 1964 Olympics, and later where he ended his days, living in the park's vast homeless 'villages', traumatised by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and enraged by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics." --

Tokyo Ueno Station

JR上野駅公園口

Alli

If I don't exist, I can't disappear either.

milly

To speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen. 

taylor miles hopkins

Gixsy ♡

It wasn't that I wanted to die; it was just that I was tired of trying.

sina (she/her) 

I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there's the next, and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one. But life is nothing like a story in a book. There may be words, and the pages may be numbered, but there is no plot. There may be an ending, but there is no end.

Nobody starts off life in a hovel made of cardboard and tarps, and nobody becomes homeless because they want to be. One thing happens, then another. 

To speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can alwavs just listen.

Insomnia, then eternal sleep—held apart from one by death and the other by life, brought closer to one by life and the other by death, and the rain, the rain, the rain, the rain.

To be homeless is to be ignored when people wallk past while still being in full view of everyone.

Monica Cope

If I don’t exist, I can’t disappear either.

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