Curtis Sliwa is their landlord.

Eric Adams is a beloved guest star, always involved in some zany scheme with a foreign government.

S03E12: Cuomo launches a racist ad campaign against his school board opponent for being Greek. Dershowitz undergoes plastic surgery but gives himself away when somebody in the Pierogi queue mentions Epstein.

That's like one of only two things I remember from the novel, lol.

It happens to the best of us. The line from Chicago's "Street Player" is "street sounds flowing through my mind," but when The Bucketheads, led by master producer Kenny Dope, sampled it, they named the resulting song "The Bomb (These Sounds Flow Into My Mind)".

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Also, as to why the name of all these poetry forms use the kanji for song (歌), my best guess is that it has to do with how it seems that there is a traditional rhythm for reciting poetry in traditional Japanese forms, of each line being read in an 8-beat line.

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The katauta is three-lines, originally with 5-7-7 syllable. This is just a single "couplet" chōka!

The chōka can be 7 lines or longer, but it must have a form consisting of couplets of 5 and 7 syllables, with an extra line of 7 syllables making the final couplet a triplet. So, the shortest chōka would be 5-7-5-7-5-7-7.

What do you get if you make a chōka even shorter? 5-7-5-7-7, a tanka.

Thoughts, or a novel?

Witnessing the 2024 total solar eclipse in the backyard of the house I grew up in was an incredible experience. I wanted to write a poem that captured the otherworldliness of the experience. I hope you think I succeeded. (28/28)

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The translation that I included in Matcha and Birds:

Silent birds
In the sky, a white
Halo
I saw an imitation night
Where did I come to, I wonder

(27/28)

かな (kana) is a word frequently used in haiku as a "kireji" ("cutting-word"), for its poetic meaning of wonderment and introduction of circularity into the poem, but in this tanka it is used in its literal meaning, "I wonder?" The line can be translated as "I wonder where I came to?" (26/28)

The fifth and final line, どこに来たかな (doko ni kita kana), is a question that introduces subjectivity into the poem. どこに (doko ni) means "where," and 来た (kita) is the past tense of 来る (kuru), "to come." (25/28)

を (o) is a particle which marks the preceding noun as the direct object of the sentence's verb, 見た (mita), the verb 見る (miru), "to see," conjugated into the past-tense. The fourth-line can be translated as "I saw an imitation night." (24/28)