senryu group (hotel problems)

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 lobby furniture 

all misarranged...

don't care anymore

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bite 

of the nightwind

ignoring my homework

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canned bellflowers

fighting to stay

awake

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flat soda 

with whiskey—

5:25 am 

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deeply cold outside no punctuation in my senryu 

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slipping away 

to floss quickly —

overnight shift

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suppressing yawns 

can't wait til'

shift's over 

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hotel problems—

hot coffee though 

elevator doesn't work

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