Fluffy bread tanka

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i pound the bread dough
imagining it’s your face
you make me want to
eat a bullet, kill myself
bread will be fluffy tonight

What do you think of the last line? My mom said if you knead bread alot it'll be really fluffy. Do you think it's too vague? If so, any suggestions for the last line? (It has to be only 7 syllables.)
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I think the last line is fine-I didn't know bread was fluffy if it's kneaded a lot, but most people probably know more about baking or whatever than I do-I'm hopeless in the kitchen. I think it's a great metaphor.
Matt.




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Hee hee. Angry aren't we?
This was pretty decent... You can always make some lines about what the bread is made of.
Hatered, anger, spit... revenge? :twisted: AHAHAHA... AHA... Well yeah, the last line, I can't describe it but it seemed awkward with no such transistion.




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I remember, one time I kneaded some biscuits too much, and they were the hardest things around. It sucked. I had to eat them too -- child abuse!

I'm not sure about it though... bread dough may be? Try it yourself! :)

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Wow, I like it. Usually short poems aren't that good.
Correction, MY short poems are not good.
Anyway, yours is awesome. I love the last line.
Maybe add some punctuation? Or maybe not.
Siempre, siempre: jardin de mi agonia,
tu cuerpo fugitivo para siempre,
la sangre de tus venas en mi boca,
tu boca ya sin luz para mi muerte.

-From 'Del amor imprevisto', Federico Garcia Lorca




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The style is tanka, you're not supposed to use punctuation.
Holding pasts in ash black earth
Bound by roots
Roots into sand
Grow towards the giver



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