Can you spell it? Can you use it in
a sentence? Can you sound it out backwards, in German?
If love left Lauren lifeless, left
Lilly limp, let Lisa elope.
Ellided.
Two hundred and three.
A number as a great as a thousand
to me.
For if all of the numbers and none
of the chance.
If half of the victims of sad
circumstance.
Could find their way here to a
moment like mine
Could stay past forever or at least
until nine.
You seek your emotion in a pool of
stone.
You freak at the thought of being
alone.
You tear at the three or the seven.
You disbelieve Hell, you scoff at
Heaven.
Say it again. Sound it out. You can
do it.