Rebecca Freedman
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Rebecca Freedman
@rebeccafreedman.bsky.social
Author living in the Boston-area. Pronouns: she/her 🏳️‍⚧️ Poetry chapbook Matcha and Birds available now.

https://rebfree.itch.io
https://rebeccafreedman.gumroad.com
T4T 1
Event page for queer and transgender reading series
t4treadings.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Went to a dyke event and met a bunch of trans lesbians tonight, you are so right.
November 12, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Curtis Sliwa is their landlord.
November 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Eric Adams is a beloved guest star, always involved in some zany scheme with a foreign government.
November 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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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.
November 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
That's like one of only two things I remember from the novel, lol.
November 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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)".

youtu.be/HJMw8cUGjwI?...
Chicago - Street Player
YouTube video by incrediblecHiller
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November 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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.

www.gendaihaiku.com/research/met...
www.gendaihaiku.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The katauta is three-lines, originally with 5-7-7 syllable. This is just a single "couplet" chōka!
November 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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.
November 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM