what if you found out
Climate was cheating on you,
no shared future plans

 Dude. Shocked surprise don't fly here.
 We. Used. Her. She gwon ghost us.

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My understanding is that in traditional form, a tanka was often written by two different people, one writing a haiku and the other replying with an additional pair of lines, shifting the perspective usually, perhaps in another voice.

So I wrote the original haiku and was thinking about it a bit, and then I decided it should be extended and that I would reply in kind of the same way.