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One is a candle’s flame. One thing is not small or large. One wants to be other yet only is only. One yields one.
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To know what it means to increase is too tricky for ones that have only seen themselves. With other comes fighting. Interactions intrigue one, wanting to know what it means to be intense. Too tricky; Two’s elusive.
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There is a stable structure and a we, and all the same. There is much to say now, many to speak to.
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For Two, Three is a step too gentle. For Three, Two wants too much. A pair pair forms, and all are pleased with their arrangement.
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Fire vessel of happiness, darting across every room, burning the new furniture and saying, “Look at me, I will be in charge when I am older!”
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Sick sombre creatures look to their big brother. Six’s sick siblings see kisses mark their transition into an afterlife. A hand ticks, sinks its way to the bottom of the half-pipe.
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This heaven if heaven is not so perfect. Two and Three gone, Five erratic, there are no worthy primes. Seven is hesitant but settles into this workplace.
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A Two meets a Two meets a Two meets a Two.
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Deny no Three a seat at the table! A strength of strength reunited, so perfect undisturbed.
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Tentatively they yield to Five’s early inheritance. Five settles. Their kingdom breaks into tents, an unscaling, fizzling into no intensity.