We don’t laugh anymore.
My second family, gone.
The budgets are too tight.
Schedule and future are bleak.
Maybe the fun is elsewhere?
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A tanka is a traditional unrhymed Japanese tanka definition poetry form consisting of 31 syllables split across five lines in a 5-7-5-7-7 pattern. Originating over 1,300 years ago, it expands on the shorter haiku format by adding two extra 7-syllable lines, shifting from objective imagery into deep personal emotion.
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