[Improvisational Poem] A Novelist Before Dawn

[Improvisational Poem]
A project born from a live stream📝
I received 'three topics' and a 'worry' from viewers
and wrote a poem on the spot in one minute

[Topics]
1. 2:00 AM at a convenience store
2. A LINE message that stays unread
3. A ballpoint pen that has run out of ink

[Worry]
I feel like I'm working hard, but no one notices

The 2:00 AM 7-Eleven
was filled with silence

Aiming to be a novelist,
in my left pocket
was a ballpoint pen that had run out of ink

How many tens of thousands of characters have I written?
How many people have read them?

I sent a LINE message to a friend from high school asking, 'Did you read the novel I posted on my note?'
but it didn't even show as read

I should just quit...
No one is watching anyway...

To pay for the Pilot ballpoint pen,
I took 200 yen out of my pocket.

At that moment,
a piece of paper
fluttered onto the floor

A female employee with short hair wearing a green uniform
quickly picked it up

'Wow! You're writing a novel!
Good luck!'

A note filled with the structure of my novel.
I nodded, feeling embarrassed

My story is still before dawn.
If I keep going,
someone will surely notice

I drank a cup of Nescafé coffee
and set my ballpoint pen to paper

With just one
word of support as my driving force

In closing

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