Eighty-eight (Sedoka Poem)

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My music is far

Trapped inside my useless core

Mocking me in every way

My fingers crippled

Over the eighty eight thorns

Burning my soul with questions

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The Sedoka is an unrhymed poem made up of two three-line (katauta) with the following syllable counts: 5/7/7, 5/7/7.
A Sedoka, pair of (katauta) as a single poem, may address the same subject from differing perspectives.

A (katauta) is an unrhymed three-line poem the following syllable counts: 5/7/7.

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