Multiplicity



Once,
I twice saw a third thing
for the fourth time
while drinking a fifth
on the sixth of the seventh month
during the eighth year of the ninth decade
in the tenth century
after the eleventh millennium.
You know,
back when I was twelve.

13.

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If I believe you are positively negative, do you thus believe that I am negatively positive?

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Submitted by cmichaelm on January 09, 2024

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Scheme ABCDEFGHIJ
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 242
Words 51
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10

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