IF God Had Not Strengthened Me (Bussokusekika)
Edwin Ray Tanguma 1966 (Los Angeles)
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This poem is about an incident that happened to me on Okinawa at the Naval Hospital Kadena A.F.B ...A gay Filipino corpsman took advantage of me while I was in medical restraints...And IF God had not given me the strength to break free from said restraints...Who knows what might have happened to me... Forgive me for the use of faggot in this poem...
Written on November 20, 2022
Submitted by EdwinRayTanguma on November 20, 2022
Modified by EdwinRayTanguma on November 20, 2022
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| Scheme | X XXAXAX X |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 247 |
| Words | 44 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 1 |
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