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An open ended barrel, it is shaped like a hive. It is filled with the flesh, and the flesh is alive.
It doesn't live within a house, nor does it live without. Most will use it when they come in, and again when they go out.
A hole in a pole, though I fill a hole in white. I'm used more by the day, and less by the night.
Soft and fragile is my skin, I get my growth in mud. Iām dangerous as much as pretty, for if not careful, I draw blood.
Stealthy as a shadow in the dead of night, cunning but affectionate if given a bite. Never owned but often loved. At my sport considered cruel, but that's because you never know me at all.
If you count 20 houses on your right going to the store and 20 houses on your left coming home, how many houses did you count?