04-13-2021, 05:35 AM
Not so Odd
Thirteen has an awful reputation
just one over human quantities--
fingers plus one tally each for feet.
Though not divisible in equal piles
it’s parent to so much:
four suits of cards each numbering
our magic integer; their total fifty-two
exactly equals count of weeks per year
factored with four seasons
each precisely thirteen weeks, and mystic most
multiplied by ur-prime three
begets eternal thirty-nine...
age of Jack Benny.
Thirteen has an awful reputation
just one over human quantities--
fingers plus one tally each for feet.
Though not divisible in equal piles
it’s parent to so much:
four suits of cards each numbering
our magic integer; their total fifty-two
exactly equals count of weeks per year
factored with four seasons
each precisely thirteen weeks, and mystic most
multiplied by ur-prime three
begets eternal thirty-nine...
age of Jack Benny.
Non-practicing atheist