Showing posts with label pyramids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pyramids. Show all posts

Sunday, October 21, 2012

On Turning Fifty-Six


R.A.D. Stainforth's excellent read

It's the sum

of the first six
triangular numbers,

some kind of
Stonehenge black magic,
being born in '56,
then turning it.

Somebody said,

"Watch your back,
both Abe and Adolf
were shot in the head
at fifty-six

both the good and bad
could be targeted."

My Alice was good,
leader of a certain world,
hers no less tragic,
dead at the same age.

But I should be okay

my name doesn't begin
with the pyramid A,

I'll avoid theaters,
packing,
and most of all,
politics.



tk, October 2012

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