Count To A Million Thread!

7379 = 47 x 157

When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,

7380

Then how should I begin

7381 = 112 x 61

To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?

7382

And how should I presume?

7383 = 3 x 23 x 107

And I have known the arms already, known them all—

7384

Arms that are braceleted and white and bare

7485 = 5 x 7 x 211

(But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!)

7486

Is it perfume from a dress

7487, prime.

That makes me so digress?

7488 (glad to see we skipped a hundred. Yay)

Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl.

Oh, dear, what a mess! I did it again, I am not concentrated any more. Scheisse.

7489

And should I then presume?

[Don’t sweat it. It’s happened before, and we just keep going anyway.]

7490

And how should I begin?

[Yes, but 5 x 7 x 211 is 7385! Only I wrote something different. We will never bring the universe to an end like that.]

7491

Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets

[Hey this is the Count to a Million thread game, not the “Nine Billion Names of God” story.]

7492

And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes

[Are you sure? :thinking:]

7493

Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? …

[I’ll look out the window tonight. If I see the stars going out one by one, I’ll start to worry.]

7494

I should have been a pair of ragged claws

[Nah, don’t worry, that’s just the clouds. We are still 992.505 short of the goal.]

7495

Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

[Well, let’s keep going, then.]

7496

And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully!

7497

Smoothed by long fingers,