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Hot tempered and sometimes it blows its top, making a mess of everything.
Even if you throw it away, it still comes back.
War fought with pieces on a board.
Prior to smartphones, people used this to record their lives.
If the day before yesterday is the 23rd, then what is the day after tomorrow.
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.