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Calligraphy exercise.

"gold-framed fiasco"

as the barbed wire berries
brandish crimson hymn, zoo-cheer

Baron Samedi's modem
metrics-chirps & crown purples

red & white whiffed software
whelms the infirm grinchforce

prowl fields of stone stillness
stirious news, soon nearing

murk-making my name
among hungerthinned indigents

all the ermined numbers
ailerons drop from, hoplite

call me jaundiced

Even Gumby has to go to meetings.

"i bite into a persimmon
and a bell resounds—
Horyuji"

—Masaoka Shiki
(Sept 17, 1867 - Sept 19, 1902)

Tr. Janine Beichman

note: Horyuji is a temple known for its persimmon orchards (via @evecastle.bsky.social)

Low-Born Emperor.