On a beach near Tokyo
two bikinied angels
squint to the West in
search of love.
They prop each other up,
bought blond head to
bought blond head.
Their bodies teeter
on six-inch soles through
the gauntlet of their
fourteenth year, and irony
weighs them down in giggles
that sing from
souls as thin as ancient
parchment and
as brittle.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | AXXXBX XBXX AXXXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 297 |
Words | 55 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 5 |
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