The Daily Poem

THREE NUMBERS & A WORD

There's a shuffle of cards in a stack

And each has a word on its back.

You look through the pile

It takes you a while

Until you flip over the "Jack."

You track the full number of flips

And write it on one of the slips

You find with the pen,

Then do it again,

But this time you're looking for "Strips."

Then taking the cards you've learned

To shuffle and stack and turn,

You go tenth to the end

For the word to send

And the word you must send is "Burn."

If the word isn't what I've decreed

And the numbers aren't powers of three

Then give it a rest

'Cause you've failed my test

Of a random ability.

D. Edgar Lamp

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Limerick Stanza

Portland, Oregon

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