Unashamed Observations contains prose poems about my experiences living in Japan, driving a taxi in New York City, growing up in an orphanage in Pennsylvania, detailing my contact with animals on a dairy farm along with the many men and women that I have met. The poems draw out those idiosyncrasies I have experienced, whether it be a moment of cruelty on a bus in Japan, my response to an orange on a table, the relationship of a hemophiliac to his condition, the shocking reply to someone's politeness, or my experience towards an amputee sitting before me on a Japanese train. These are the first five poems in the collection. There are 105 remaining poems.