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To Do As They Always Do (Bussokusekika)

Edwin Tanguma 1966 (CA)

To Do As They Always Do   (Bussokusekika)

Creatures of habit
Can be so predictable
For those who stalk them
They just have to lie in wait
For their unsuspecting prey
To do as they always do

Edwin Tanguma   Aka   Dagesh   12/26/2023

About this poem

Keywords…Quiet,still,peaceful,gentle,Our Lady of Mercy,strong and brave…a female personification of the United States…Might you be a model by trade???New World Order ewes sez???Surely Yeez jest…Who dooz ewes thunk am I???Seeing that he before me took I am I gez that left me as am I…

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Written on December 26, 2023

Submitted by EdwinRayTanguma on December 27, 2023

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Scheme X XXXXXX X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 233
Words 43
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 6, 1
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