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April 23rd challenge

Oh, is it wise to mess with twenty three?
Just corelation. Ain't enough to see
arrangement of the bloody cart and horse.

Is twenty three the cause or the effect?
Or just a silly attribute along
for quite the long and strange chaotic run?

It could be that I'm pissing up a rope.
Oh, is it wise to mess with twenty three?

It could be my turn at Russian roulette.
Oh, is it wise to mess with twenty three?

It could be armageddon ... or just tea.
Oh, is it wise to mess with twenty three?

Perhaps this invocation is a ward
that keeps the evil poltergeists at bay,
a talisman of goodness and the light
designed to keep the speaker in the right.
But I digress. Ah there!

Oh, is it wise to mess with twenty three?
It certainly invokes my OCD
and niggles by the fact that it is odd.
Unbalanced like a tire that is cupped.
Annoying like a reading glass that's smudged.
Or like the frayed thread keeping Damocles alive ... for now.