literature

Pick My Brain

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You put your fingers
in my mind, to pinch and twist.
Get me to react.
If you had the chance
to intrude once more, would you
rinse your fingers first?
I was bored, and so trying out various forms of poetry. And talking to myself in 5-7 form (when I say bored, I mean really bored).
This is my trying of the Sedoka form, which I took to be having a pair of katauta (haiku) of either 17 or 19 syllables. Looking up sedoka again, however, most say that it's supposed to be two katauta of the 5-7-7 type.
To conform to this, I could write the poem

You put your fingers
in my mind, to pinch and twist.
Get me to react to you.
If you took the chance
to intrude once more, would you
rinse your fingers afterward?

but that leaves such a Cynical, Bitter aftertaste that that becomes the focus of the poem. I would rather the emotion be annoyance, not talking back.
Anywho... ignoring specifics as to form (I could go on about it having to be nature based etc.), I think it came out well.
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