Lunch in a Japanese Restaurant
Business people all around
Eating Japanese food
Trying to impress while they ingest
Others of their party with lies in their eyes
Talking at the top of their voices.
It gets too loud to hear.
Conversation turns into noise.
While I sit here pensively penning a poem
As I wait for my "Yaki Soba."
They order expensive, tasteless "Sashimi."
They cover it with burning "Wasabi"and ginger.
They drink exotic cold "Saki."
They pretend to know how to use chopsticks
As I finish my soy-soaked "Tofu"
Drinking a warm cup of green tea or two.
I wonder if they really think they impress
Woman nervously twisting their pearls
In their "Versace" black satin dress
Who blink their eyes like shameless flirts
At men in stylish expensive "Armani" shirts?
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Submitted on September 18, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIHJKLMMNONPP |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 719 |
Words | 130 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
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