Tanshi cluster

reading and re-reading 

tanka by Takuboku 

things to pass this hotel time 

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overnight shift—

i just want an evening free

of other human beings 

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2:09 am—

my breath smells of the 

Fritos i've been eating tonight 

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a Latino family in the lobby

eating their Whataburger...

i want a hamburger and home

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he's a man 

free to ride his Harley into the night—

im only left with memories 

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though i close my eyes 

really ain't much in my mind...

mountain pheasants and running water 

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paying for company tonight

this man 

and his daddy issues 

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feeling restless 

tonight propositioning 

a random man for sex for release...

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tonight watched a funeral procession 

taking a pessimistic stance

this life, flimsy

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chocolate syrup on his chest

pausing when licking it up 

what am i doing here?

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nothing to do...

walked the neighborhood streets

until even the darkness got tired of me

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not really hungry 

just really bored...

eating bag of chip after bag of chip

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lone night-walk 

passing dilapidated houses...

they appear grim and weary

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thinking of a blood-red sun 

in winter fog...

this workshift stretches on and on 

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this evening 

reading Kenkabo's senryu 

to Basho's 'Old Pond' hokku—interesting 

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kindness of a guest 

she puts a canned margarita 

in my hands—my coffees' grown tepid

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so irritated...

i want youth i want lovers i want...

crookedness of a Chagall painting

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