Tai is a poet and a basketball player. It is as a basketball player that I came to know him, but as a poet that I regard him.

In this first opportunity to speak with him we talk more specifically about poetry and his work and of course the background to who Tai is and some familiarising with his Japanese cultural roots,

Tai reads for us some of his work and there is great depth to be found in the arrangement of his words. Speed and rhythm can further accentuate the process of emotional empathising and I find that greatly exhibited here.

Thank you Tai for coming to speak with me and also for permitting me to exhibit some of your work in the podcast notes.

Here is an excerpt from june 16th, friday

the poem never ends because

the darkness comes slow

comes slow comes slow comes slow

i find inflections and downfalls to be aesthetically

pleasing i think

my parents would find it

disturbing

they find me

confusing

and when they find me disturbing

is when they shut me

down

i have felt

the wall within the house

and the rapture

nowhere

or where i had left

them, it

falling down the stanzas

since sentences feel too finite and decisive

in art the gray

in real world the black

the black outside is rough

i find

darkness reveals

the width

of a person

Here are ways in which you can find Tai on Instagram.

https://instagram.com/taithewriter?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==

https://instagram.com/osmosis.berlin?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==

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PS. The transcript has been generated automatically and does not always reflect what has been said with 100% accuracy. I hope however that it will still provide some clarity on the content.