666 (and other kinks)

It ain't a bad looking number!...

...I like the way the numbers

Twist...

So sexy, like a spiral...

...9-9-9, or

6-6-6...

...It's like the swastika,

(or the 'whirling log' for Native Americans*)

It's only evil if you inject

Your own hocus pocus

Hatreds.

Just like anything,

Things get putrified

By vile perceptions,

An X-pectations...

Words and numbers

Are like those

Troll dolls

That use to freak everyone

Out in the 80's...

...Now Trolls are a C.G.I.

Movie because their

Recognized as

A cash cow!...

But then...

...I remember as a child,

People wouldn't wanna

Fall asleep with a Troll

Staring at them...

They're only empty vessels

O' plastic,

But we attach things

To their emptiness...

...So pass me some

XXX

Vodka,

And I'll take 666 sips

Of it,

While I stare

With my binoculars out the

Window of the 13th floor

At a black cat walking

Underneath a ladder...

I'm gonna suck the

Living fear out of

What ails the lot of us

If it kills me!...

...You mark my cursed,

And blasted

Words,

Goddamn it!!!!!

©

2018

Bunny Villaire

*"Swastika is Sanskrit meaning 'well-being'. Throughout most of history, it has been associated with order and stability. The unfortunate association of the swastika with Hitler understandably makes some people uncomfortable when they see a similar symbol on Native American baskets, rugs and jewelry.

To distinguish Whirling Logs from Hitler’s Swastika, some try to make a distinction between which direction the figure appears to rotate, clockwise or counter-clockwise. But if you look at a whirling log on the outside of a Native American basket and it is whirling counter-clockwise, that same design will be whirling clockwise on the inside. Similarly with a woven rug – each side of the rug would show the symbol whirling a different way. So that is not distinction."

---Dottie Indyke. “The History of an Ancient Human Symbol.” April 4, 2005. originally from The Wingspread Collector’s Guide to Santa Fe, Taos, and Albuquerque, Volume 15.