“In a car park a tanka”

17 seconds
over the graceless time lim-
it, but it wasn’t
the end of the world – my life
is so not a Bond Movie

Tanka is a genre in Japanese poetry similar to Haiku. In a Western interpretation, it consists of five lines with syllable counts 5-7-5-7-7, or 31 in total. There is usually a break, either after the first couplet or the first tercet.