Numbers

the numbers game

whenever you see
a clean-shaven man
in a forthright shirt
sitting with three
stubbled slices of men
they're either a band
or a robbery plan

if you catch sight
of three women
laughing into
daisy-shaped fans
two of them have
a man in hand

no doubt
should you spy
a hundred kids
crocodiling behind
a bearded man
ten of them
understand

two clowns
form a cavalcade
eight clowns
a convention

six hippies signify
a happening
twelve cops
on horseback
an oppression

the two of us
lost in laughing
is represented
by the symbol
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