747... my number... what's your number?

[Doreen Peri]

I look at the clock only 2 or 3 times a day. It's OFTEN 7:47. Many more times than it is not 7:47, it IS 7:47.

That's my number. I figure it has some significance. Like I'm going somewhere, 747 being my plane.

Why does this number continually recur when I look at the clock? And it's not only the clock, it shows up other places, too. Mostly the clock, tho. So, maybe it's because I'm used to looking at the clock only 2x a day, at 7:47am and 7:47pm and my mind is programmed to check the time 2x a day, 12 hours apart? Just a rational guess.

Do you have a number?

What's your number?

When does it recur for you?



I'm so lonely I could die.
I'm ready to fly anywhere.
How do you make this text smaller?
who knows the code?
What are the numbers you'd like
flushed in the commode?

[Doreen Peri]

sounds like a separate topic... or i'm still stuck on 747

i don't understand

yes please post your conclusions

[Arcadia]

no idea about recurrence! I like números impares, all of them specially 1, 3 and 7.

[eugeneherman]

My number is hindsight 20 20

[Doreen Peri]

My number is hindsight 20 20

aha!!!!!
lol!

i'm flying blind
ahead of time,
you're looking back
instead

any number will do
as long as the numbers
are alive, not dead!

thank you, eugeneherman!

[judih]

the most recurrent number for me is 19:19 (time told by cell phone)
but that's mostly cause it's my time of day to stop sitting around and start moving.

My cellphone, by the way, usually offers me double digits. i look and it's 10:10 or 15:15 (love that one)
not anything mystical, just nice. Reminds me that there must be some sort of track and that i just hit an intersection.

[Lightning Rod]

I'm not a numerologist
any more than I am a numismatist
I can't count my money (which is just as well, because I have none)
I can barely lick my stamps

but often when I look at the clock it says 11:11
never oftener than twice a day though
so, I know I'm not obsessed

[bennie2]

i get the 11.11 thing very often. in the morning and the evening i manage to look and see it... when i was a stoner it used to freak me out. now it just... well. it just.

oh look. it.s 1.38 huh! haven't seen that in twelve hours.

[YABYUM]

I hadn't realized my number until moments ago.
Every twelve pack I drink solo.....
For some reason, when I look to see how many soldiers are left in the box.......it is ALWAYS 6. Every frigan time.

so 6 is my number.

[joel]

An afternoon at three oh three—
eleven, ten, nineteen-eighty—
second child,
second son,
the one two come from
papa's second wife,
two weeks advent to my sainted grandma's birthday
("I've had my share of sloppy seconds.").

I had a game I often played
throughout my second president's
trickle down and down-and-out decade:
my natal year had ended up a zero
and my new age was always mirrored
in the calendar's ultimate digit—
a birthday Gift for das Kind, das Mathematik nicht liebt.

Kindergarten won one twenty-first of my post-preschooling
three fourths the way through nineteen-eighty-six,
and I arrived on shortbus number six
and shortly turned thereafter six in age:
three sixes starting school, and school I loved so much
(sinfully perhaps)
and ended up my last six years of pre-university
two one hour trips each day on Gilma's Big Cheese Nine-Four-One
and that I hated so much (sinfully perhaps)
especially when I had to ride when one of several cars of mine broke down,
Nine-Four-One at six-twenty every morning
and getting off at four o'clock each afternoon from Nine-Four-One,
till somewhere I took ownership of it
and started up a love affair
till everything was Nine-Four-One:
twice per day,
the final page,
an old tree's age
or calories burned—

when I was healthier than I am now and I was
going once to the gym each day
I worked my heart
and watched the caloric output of my soul
and cringed at a number in the six hundreds
(an old love's birthday
(why I can't be as poor for anniversaries as I am for math...))
and had to push on till I came to a more blessed number:
303 passé—
666,
941,
1110,
1124— and who was it who first saw eights as vertical infinities?

[Lightning Rod]

this is a brilliant response to the subject, joel
(not that I would expect anything less of you)

I love the way you maintain the conceit

numbers, numbers. numbers

[joel]

LR & B2--

Don't know if you follow Rufus Wainwright at all...but check out his 11:11 if you'd like. Good stuff....

[bennie2]

i've seen rufus wainwright two or three times, joel. great experiences.

i haven't spoken to you on here before, joel. at least i don't think i have. i enjoy a lot of your poems, even if i don't write it at the time.

[joel]

B2--i've been enjoying your writing/art (and envying the fourteenth floor view) too. i haven't made it out to see rufus in ocncert personally, but i'd like to catch him sometime--strikes me as a thinker.

my watch says it's 1234 ... and i'm following the pattern to bed.

[hester_prynne]

I won a 147 trifecta once, for a grand.
Been my numbers ever since...

H