Paraskevidekatriaphobia

In the first documented reference to Friday the 13th, it is already described as an ancient superstition, but the ancients had much more complex methods for detecting an inauspicious day. They might’ve noticed for example how those three crows skimmed low & landed in the field to reunite with their shadows. They might’ve seen the wild columbine next to the sidewalk thrusting its red lanterns where they don’t belong. Our ancestors preferred hot jets of revelation to the patient & dispassionate sifting of evidence and you & I are the eventual result, with our missing 13th floors & our boardrooms full of Judases. Ten million Americans won’t get out of bed today because nothing bad can happen as long as your eyes stay closed. In an otherwise empty morning sky, what can possibly begin with our dead moon’s fish-belly of a C?