alone in a crowd
even the seat
in this café
doesn’t
fit
The Tanka Anthology, 2003
Kenneth Tanemura
Commentary: Kenneth Tanemura takes this cliche, "alone in a crowd," and refreshes it in a comic way: "even the seat/ in this café/ doesn’t/ fit." He effectively builds this sense of isolation/loneliness by decreasing syllables with each line. The last two lines/words (three syllables in total) strike the reader hard.
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