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Write a poem with each line including numbers in ascending or descending order
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I tell myself ten pills is to many
I take nine instead
I lay for eight minutes
I feel the head rush in seven
I cry for six minutes
I laugh for five
I can’t breath, I just need four minutes
I can’t think it’s only been three minutes
I cant see it’s been two minutes
I’m not here, one more moment this could’ve been solved. ...
One and two, from me to you.
Three and four, slamming the door.
Five and six, just stones and sticks.
Seven and eight, fighting heartache.
Nine and ten... alone again.
Eleven and twelve, deeper I delve.
Thirteen, fourteen, a sorrowful scene.
Fifteen, sixteen jealousy between -
Seventeen, eighteen, an obscene queen.
Nineteen, twenty... forever empty.
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It was one night.
Two friends, hand in hand, staring out over the crumbling world from the rooftop which they were perched.
Three hours left until the world they had always known came to an end.
Four words spoken: “So, this is it. “
Five seconds of pure silence.
Six words came from the second friend: “I’m going to miss all this.”
Seven minutes pass.
Eight minutes.
Nine.
Ten. Tick, tock.
Eleven...
I always had thought that you were the one
But then you went and met those two
The three of you together, you left me in the dust
Four years
Nearly five, now that I think about it
You left to join the six
I guess now there are seven “popular” kids
After however long, eight days, eight months, eight years
Don’t come crying back to me, because you lied to me for nine
Just now, I can list ten times y...