Start at the beginning, day one,
keep going, two three four five six,
& on the seventh day she rests.
How many years, how many generations,
wives, cubits? Animals in pairs.
Forty days. A single dove.
Bris on the eighth day. Mitzvah
at twelve or thirteen, sex dependent.
Gender fluid get to choose.
Job’s three friends, Job’s seven days
& seven nights. Jonas, three days &
three nights inside the whale.
Four apostles. One Paul.
Five loaves & two fishes. Or
seven loaves & a few little fishes.
One man, one rib, one snake.
Mary Magdalene’s seven demons.
One Jesus, two thieves.
The mathematics of Jewish scripture,
the man said. Sixes & sevens, I thought.
Scholarship its own reward.
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