Book V
Dope
Colors, counting, threes and evens: the mind at play.
8 poems
No. 1As colors merge and flow
As colors merge and flow
Patterns emerge and grow
Sometimes, dip down low
But undertone can still show
Separate, the color strives
Growing duller, it writhes
Light stabs dark with knives
Exposed, the color arrives
A color that has dulled too deep
Questions, answers, it will seek
Will it succumb, is it too weak?
With light, it can shine through bleak
Another color sparkles bright
Creating daytime out of night
The dulled one within it's sight
Begins to sparkle with delight
The two colors merge into one
Gleaming under the beautiful sun
Another pattern shall have begun
One full of happiness and fun
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No. 2The count
Once again, can't sleep, sitting still
Once again, future me, time to steal
Once again, grogginess next day to deal
Once again, why, why is this so real?
Second chance, ask her for a dance
Second chance, stand back up, fix stance
Second chance, wake up out of the trance
Second chance, real life or romance
Third time's a charm, push up that arm
Third time's a charm, go ahead, set alarm
Third time'e a charm, it's time to farm
Third time's a charm, do good, no harm
Fourth wall, see through fog, see them all
Fourth wall, outside the box, don't fall
Fourth wall, let your creativity sprawl
Fourth wall, inspire others, share the ball
Fifth wheel, attention try not to steal
Fifth wheel, so much drama to deal
Fifth wheel, why does it seem so real
Fifth wheel, will it ever really heal
Sixth sense, is somone at the fence
Sixth sense, past the fog so dence
Sixth sense, wash away fear, let it rinse
Sixth sense, live in the now, present tense
Seventh heaven, a world without pain
Seventh heaven, purpose to obtain
Seventh heaven, negativity abstain
Seventh heaven, happiness gain
Eight world wonders, big and majestic
Eight world wonders, real true magic
Eight world wonders, powerfully magnetic
Eight world wonders, always a bit eclectic
Nine tails, nine lives to experience
Nine tails, nine routes, some mysterious
Nine tails, nine stories, some serious
Nine tails, nein heads, nein variance
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No. 3Zero two four six eight
Zero two four six eight
One three five seven nine
Evenly distributed weight
Oddly unbalanced sign
Evens always make evens again
Odds oddly make them odd
Odds evenly allow evens regen
Both makes either, so broad
Same is true when multiplied
Except for the last statement
If evens and odds are applied
It's always evenly regulated
Evens powered stay even still
Odds to either never lose oddity
Evens and odds, what a thrill
No matter how large or quantity
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No. 4The properties of three are important to me
The properties of three are important to me
Add the digits of any multiple of three
It is also divisible by three, you'll see
Yes, this trait is continued indefinitely
Three is a Fermat, Mersenne, and a prime
Placing itself in three different sets at a time
Triangle a 2d shape, fewest points to align
Points, sides, angles are 3, sum 180 = nine
Sierpinski's triangle splits, three within three
Koch snowflake falls into thirds continually
Menger sponge hollows, it's cubes torn free
Fractional dimensions, patterned beautifully
A triangular bypyramid gets all 3s almost
Euler's formula making missing point a ghost
We get 6 sides, 9 lines, and 5 points at most
Angles still divide by 3, holding 6th point at host
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No. 5Base
All your base are belong to us
All of its radixes ride our bus
Rapped up tight like a truss
All your base are belong to us
Base ten won the contest race
Binary code computes an ace
Base 60 used on our clock face
Base 20, Mayans tracked space
Zero, One, One zero, One done
Zero, One, Two, One zero, One one
One two, Two zero, Two one, Two two
One Base, Two Base, Three through
Duodecimated hours and inches
Sexagesimal circled time hinges
Octal base computed in the fringes
Base 27, new guinea body bends
All your base are belong to us
All of its radixes ride our bus
Rapped up tight like a truss
All your base are belong to us
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No. 6Azing
Aiming, breeding, cheating, darling
Ending, feeling, growling, healing
Itching, jarring, kneeling, leaving
Melting, nesting, oozing, pacing
Quelling, reading, seating, testing
Urging, venting, waking, x-ing
Yielding, zeroing
Ing
Aching, aiming, acting, aging
Beating, breathing, breeding, beaming
Creatine, cheating, creasing, cheesing
Dealing, drilling, distilling, darling
Eating, earthling, ending, exiting
Freeing, feeding, feeling, feasting
Going, growing, growling, gusting
Heating, healing, hearing, hurding
Icing, idling, inking, itching
Jailing, jousting, joking, jarring
Kneading, kneeling, killing, kilting
Laughing, leading, leaping, leaving
Making, meaning, meeting, melting
Naming, nearing, needing, nesting
Oozing, opting, outing, owning
Pacing, painting, peeking, playing
Quaking, quelling, questing, quoting
Racing, raining, reading, reeling
Sheeting, seathing, seating, sweeting
Taking, talking, teaching, tearing
Urging, using, uniting, untying
Veering, venting, viewing, voting
Waiting, waking, walking, warning
X-raying, xeroxing, x-ing, xboxing
Yawning, yelling, yelping, yielding
Zapping, zeroing, zipping, zooming
A
Beating, breathing, breeding, beaming
Creatibe, cheating, creasing, cheesing
Dealing, drilling, distilling, darling
Eating, earthling, ending, exiting
Freeing, feeding, feeling, feasting
Going, growing, growling, gusting
Heating, healing, hearing, hurding
I
Jailing, jousting, joking, jarring
Kneading, kneeling, killing, kilting
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
Sheeting, seathing, seating, sweeting
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
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No. 7Go on, pick a card, yes any card.
Go on, pick a card, yes any card.
Any at random, no need to think hard.
Was this it, no, the back wasn't charred.
No cheating, no corners were starred.
Were playing a special kind of poker.
The one where wilds equals the joker.
But don't worry, before we poke her.
We'll stop before you get broker.
For all the cards in the deck are wild.
All the faces in the crowd are smiled.
The seniors, the adults, even the child.
Enjoy the colors, white and black is mild.
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No. 8From video to tabletops
From video to tabletops
Our love of games and shops
high rolls and even the flops
friendships that never stops
bardic inspiration +6 to rolls
overflowing food in bowls
comfy cozy sleeping holes
i wish for thee, these goals
happy thanksgiving friends
may adventures never end
pen, pineapple, pineapple pens
all the memes, all the trends
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