February: Year-day 56

                                       
                                          
February: Year-day 56

No idea today; so here's a line
and here's another, closing up, preparing
for a third one running now as far and fine--.
Line four already, when three was just airing?
Why, we'll be out of the fifth before we've
had time to taste it!  And as for six, it's
gone!  What!  What shakes here?  What's up this guy's sleeve,
anyway?  Seven?  He's giving me fits!

Eight?  Sorry, too late, I'm number nine.  Oh,
heavens to lime'n'rum!  I suppose ten
is eleven, and the twelfth rat will show
somewhere inside the thirteenth ship again--
that bad luck phantom--so we barely know
where fourteen floats, or how, or why, or when!

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