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Rated: 13+ · Book · Writing · #2316158

The second of my collections of poems written for "Express It In Eight."

As usual these days, I choose blog format because it offers more space for the work.
December 3, 2025 at 9:04am
December 3, 2025 at 9:04am
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Numbers

Oh, delirious draught of ether,
something to allay the fever,
a gas to inspire some laughin’
or party with fatted calf in.

Perhaps even the fabled novocaine,
that welcome, numbing rain
of swollen, painless fumbling
into the future stumbling.



Line count: 8
Rhyemed aabb
For Express It In Eight, 12.03.25
Prompt: Write a poem that includes three numbers.


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