Today is December 12, 2012 or, more succinctly — 12-12-12 — or, more elaborately, “Twelve, Twelve, Twelve.” I love it when calendrical numbers unify like that and create a grander meaning together than they do apart. I haven’t felt this delighted since, well, the wondrous double November whammy way back in aught ’11: 11-11-11 and 11-1-11 ten days before that.
by Steve Gaines
in the last moments of the millennium
depending of course on how
you count the beginning or end millennium
wise
at the end of December
early on the eighteenth
the year two thousand just about gone
along about three of the A.M.
in New Jersey
grand child number twelve
just one shy of the thirteenth number
as lucky as any other number as numbers go
shows up in the world
after keeping his mother busy in the process
for the better part of twenty-four hours
a boy with copious and dark hair makes his appearance
a long awaited debut
but I suppose about as long as most baby waitings go
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