TAK wrote to me because of love and a poem
Japanese designer living in Switzerland in the eighties
met a friend of mine named Sandy who died of AIDS
in New York City 1992 Tak loved Sandy we
all did big hole when Sandy died. He didn't talk much
about his personal life: where he was from for instance but
he could listen once I told him a story
at the Elephant and Castle a story that lasted five full hours
he didn't move never done that since many of us
loved him TAK tried to find out about Sandy since 1992
when he died and he kept googling his name nothing at all
and then two days ago he found a poem of mine about Sandy
telling me to go to Takashimaya to buy something to wear
at his life celebration dinner and I did Tak found me
though the poem asked me all the questions he'd had
for 16 years about Sandy and his life and he was able to tell me
a friend of Sandy's how much he loved him how much he missed him
and that friend would listen and understand.