April is National Poetry Month. With only today and three more days left to make another amateur contribution to the literary event, I take this opportunity to recognize in poem the younger of my two brothers, Robert, upon his reaching a momentous birthday this very day! I call this one. . .
A Riff On 52 For You At 50 + 2
52 is not just your number of trips around the sun
Or the number that simply follows Fifty-one
52 is the number of weeks in the year
And on Route 52 your car you can steer
52 is too young to suffer from chronic delirium
But it is, chronologically, the atomic number of tellurium
52 is the number of piano white keys
And it's a number indivisible by 7s or 3s
52 as a number is decagonal, an untouchable and a Bell
It is noncototient, and a Saros -- that's what Wikipedia will tell
But most of all, most important for YOU
as today you reach the age of fifty + two . . .
Unlike losing players at a casino in Quebec
52 means, "You are finally playing with a full deck!"
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Happy Birthday Broheim!
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Copyright 2013, John D. Tew
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