Footnote: Real Man? Real Poet

A Real Man. you said,

compels her to his will

(uh, that defines rape).

I would rather be a real

poet and worship my Love

(not in your terms, but

after Dante's example).

 

Kyakuchuu

 

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Again, I have extended the form of the Tanka, following the precedent of Saito Moichi, one of Japan's greatest poets of Tanka; some of whose Tanka extended to six lines.

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