The red carpet in the corridors seems to go on forever. The scent of flowers on the breeze from the vents at the end of each floor of the hotel. A network of pneumatic transporting tubes runs parallel to the ventilation system. He orders room service by telegram through the compressed air. Outside the door, the leftovers from various rumours are left on a dinner-wagon.

Last night, he wanted the words to overflow from her crimson lips. What the maid brought to his room, though, was an expired date stand-up comedy. The monologue was a medley of vague lies and ordinary romances dumped on the street. Pre-recorded laughter bubbled up from the champagne glasses and eventually faded into the twilight of dawn.

He seals a forgotten secret in the vacuum of pneumatic tubes forever. Beautiful flowering time repeats beginning and ending on the worn red carpet in the corridor. 

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hiromi suzuki is a poet, fiction writer and artist living in Tokyo, Japan. She is the author of Ms. cried – 77 poems by hiromi suzuki (Kisaragi Publishing, 2013), logbook (Hesterglock Press, 2018), INVISIBLE SCENERY (Low Frequency Press, 2018), Andante (AngelHousePress, 2019), Found Words from Olivetti (Simulacrum Press, 2020), Ephemera (Colossive Press, 2021), Isolated Life (psw gallery, 2023). Double solo exhibition with Francesco Thérès visual HAIKU | OLIVETTI poems was held in Rome, 9 ～30 September 2021.