Poets United Midweek Motif ~ The Number Thirteen

“I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. 

I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and 

the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. 

I was thirteen.” 
― Kate Braverman, 

Small Craft Warnings: Stories

Road Sign

House number

13 as sum of 2 square numbers

Midweek Motif ~ The Number Thirteen

Your Challenge:  Write a 13-line poem in which the theme has to do with the number thirteen.  Please post your poem by Friday the 13th.

Here are 13 of many possible inspirations:  

1. Paraskevidekatriaphobia  (fear of Friday the 13th)
2. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, a poem by Wallace Stevens. 
3. The first line of George Orwell's novel 1984:  It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.  
4. Thirteen Reasons Why,  a novel by by Jay Asher.
5. Saint Anthony of Padua whose feast day is June 13.
6. Thirteen, a song sung by Johnny Cash (written by Danzig)
7. Thirteen, a song by Ben Kweller
8. Wilt Chamberlain
9. Thirteen, a 2003 American film 
10. 13 Tzameti, a 2005 French film ("Tzameti," "13" in Georgian)
11. Thirteenth floors
12. Apollo 13
13. Covens

Panel from an elevator in a residential apartment building in Shanghai.
Floors 4, 13 and 14 are missing, because of the similarity between
the pronunciation of the word 'four' and 'death' in Chinese;
note also the "negative first floor", as the number zero
is considered similarly unlucky in parts of East Asia.

Please:  

1.      Post your  "13 lines on 13" poem on your site, and then link it here.

2.      Share only original and new work written for this challenge. 

3.      Leave a comment here.

4.      Honor our community by visiting and commenting on others' poems.

(Next week's Midweek Motif is  Light and Dark, or The Longest Day.)

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