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He was just alive beside me, laughing at my ***** jokes, shaking his head in shared silent mirth. His last words – ‘Stop it, Joe, you’re-‘
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Jan 18, 2016
Jan 18, 2016 at 10:04 PM UTC
War
He was just alive beside me, laughing at my ***** jokes, shaking his head in shared silent mirth. His last words – ‘Stop it, Joe, you’re-‘
An attempt at tanka, which as I understand it is similar to haiku format, but with 5 lines of 31 syllables in all, distributed 5-7-5-7-7.
#war#death#battle#tanka
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okie-cavies
Jan 18, 2016
Jan 18, 2016 at 10:04 PM UTC
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