There Was This One Girl (???)
Edwin Tanguma 1966 (CA)
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She was vacationing from Tokyo…We met at the club Applehouse…We danced all night long…She did not drink much, she left that to me…When the club closed we took a cab to Naha…It was the first time I met a woman who wanted to pick up the tab…I had 2 or 3 Benjamin’s because I had just received my monthly pay…She said what would you like…I don’t know what made me ask for iced milk…We actually found some they called it iced milku…I think it was 200-300 yen…She pulled out a wad of $10,000 yen bills to pay for it…She took quite a few pictures with her Leica camera…She told me about having to learn over 3,000 Japanese characters just to attend college…And I thought we had it rough…She was a very nice girl…It almost seemed as if she was already wanting to discuss marriage after that first date…Life is so unpredictable at times…Oh well…We were even pen pals for a time…She sent me pictures of her in a kimono…Oh the memories of one’s youth…I think I Remember her last name was Tanaka or something like that…But I could be wrong…That all happened in 1987…
Written on December 21, 2023
Submitted by EdwinRayTanguma on December 22, 2023
Modified by EdwinRayTanguma on December 22, 2023
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Scheme | A xxA x |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 137 |
Words | 25 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 1 |
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