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players on a soccer team
stars in Joseph’s second dream


odd reversible and prime
dimensions (counting space and time)


pipers piping salt (Na)
month day hour Veteran’s Day


goat’s hair curtains ripped apart
ounce-weight of the human heart


twelve less Judas David’s men
pearls and tears from Swinburne’s pen


heartbreak (on a scale of ten)