(later, same day)
the first post will have to stand; it’s too much in the system or cyberspace or something
so here's an entry for today, more accurate to the date; I hope the verse is all right with you
(please and thank you)
Thursday the Thirteenth
no big deal
walk under ladders
break
your mirrors
your
own
ignore the cats
which is to
say
be good to cats in the way you are
each day
and really don’t break mirrors
and be safe
with
ladders
and still be nice to cats
all cats
though no superstition holds
no
special degree of penalty or
reward for honoring
the small things
yet
with consequence
we might think
we should
believe
have a normal day
and
tomorrow will be a superstition-free Friday
the Fourteenth
and we may ask ourselves
if we
wish
today or tomorrow or later on
the weekend if
we should
wathc out any day regarding superstitions
though folklore has its place as well
as
an attitude of prevention
and a good with-care weekend to you
fates
and
more so
divinities allowing
c l couch
photo by Francesco Ungaro on Unsplash
and I'm wrong--for some reason I thought today was Friday, and it's Thursday except maybe on a side of the Internation Dateline (though on Earth it will not be anywhere for now a Friday the thirteenth)
I'm not sure what exactly to do; ideally, I'll cancel this post and put in another--we'll see, stand by (please and thank you)
be kind to sable cats
and careful where the ladders are
my goodness
it’s a Friday the Thirteenth
and yesterday there was an eclipse
and we had the orange moon
and are having meteors
just now
so what do the heavens laid out by calendars
foretelling
to which the better reply might be
not a thing at least
for
those of us who do not know
who aren’t
practitioners but simply
live
as best we may
have the day
be nice
to cats
all colors
watch out for safety with our ladders
and try for practicality
not
to break mirrors
this concern a matter of safety
too
or to trip on cracks
which I know
I can do
and now I wonder if our
root concerns
for that category of cultural
life
you know
superstitions
does not
aim
to promote a preventiveness
regarding domestic peril
so
to avoid
well
in whatever way for
whatever
reason
I hope this is a good with-caution day for you
with
care at hand or close by
should something smally wounding
happen
good
safe weekend
too
c l couch
photo by Francesco Ungaro on Unsplash
phobicly yours
superstitions
le chat noir
ladders
cracks in stones
spilling salt
and on
and you know some
for sure
I don’t
so this is a bad
day
as it was
certainly for the Templars
on 13 Friday
in 1307
(October)
and I have not had the best day
though
I hope you have
because
if you didn’t know the day or number
you might have a good or bad
day
regardless
and the same
a good
or bad
day tomorrow
hoping it’s good
c l couch
in 1307, the king of France got the approval of the pope to attack and kill the Knights Templar with the agenda to eradicate the order; the date was 13 October, and the day was Friday (all over France at the same time, Templar knights were captured, slain, or imprisoned to be slain a.s.a.p.)
and if cats, by the way, black and any kind, were not considered evil as likely devilish familiars—and so exterminated in great numbers throughout Europe—then the Black Plague might have been forestalled or in fact not happened, since cats tended to eat the rats that carried the fleas that carried the Bubonic infection
stepping off the soapbox now
photo by Adél Grőber on Unsplash
(x = space)
x
x
Triscuit Decks a Phobia
x
I keep forgetting
That when the first is on a Sunday
There will be a Friday
The thirteenth
I have to pay attention
Though I’m not afraid
I find it interesting
The day
The superstition
All our reactions
When we realize
x
There’s the Irish in me
Or you
Or the Italian or the Russian
The Kenyan
Or the Māori
Part of you
x
Loki
Raven
Anansi
All the mischief-makers
Plus phantom pronouncements
On the cracks
Under the ladders
With the black cats
Passing by
x
The weight of superstition
Better to wear it lightly
Over souls
Keep a thought
Let it drive you
Toward civility
With an interest in
What drives an utterance
Of the Scottish play
Inside the theatre
In another play’s production
x
Maybe ghosts will tell us
Why it matters
Since the ethereal
If not the numinous
Is attached
And coursing through
The old sources
And our own,
Both inventing things
For cautions
In our day
x
n. b.
x
Be nice to black cats
They are not superstition;
They could have stanched
The plague
x
C L Couch
x
x
Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash
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