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No Sweat…. Well Maybe Just a Little (A Tanka, Hour Seven)

No Sweat   Sweat floods my forehead Heartbeat throbs betwixt my ears Pursuing my poetry Is much harder than I thought!   (A tanka is usually five lines with a 5/7/5/7/7 syllable count.)

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