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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.
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
What is red and nailed to a wall?
They are many and one, they wave and they drum, Used to cover a state, they go with you everywhere.
A circle of stones, never in rows. Stacked one on the other, mystery it sows. What is it?