I went to a seminar tonight with the guy from Improv Everywhere, Charlie Todd. It was very informative about how to spread your internet self. How to get more famouser. I took notes. By tomorrow I'll be so huge, none of you will recognize me.
BROOKLYN TANKA, Part II
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You are my everyday Coney Island. We are always on the Wonder Wheel.
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You are on the edge of the rain and I am full inside of it.
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Hummingbirds never come here. Though my sugar water is getting drunk.
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It is hard to not speak the whole day. Then to be home so late all our words mean bed.
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You wrote for lunch you had a bucket of chicken. I wrote I’d be devouring a BLT. And both of us were instead sensible. A first.
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Under my skin are veins so surface close, I can’t get why I’ve never nicked one. Bad enough to see my blood run for air.
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You have a vocabulary for all this world and I just listen to be described.
I love this form. I think I will assign myself some Tanka study here in the near future. The factual ring of it is enchanting.
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