The Magic of Numbers

The Magic of Numbers—1 How strange it was to hear the furniture being moved around in the apartment upstairs! I was twenty-six, and you were twenty-two. The Magic of Numbers—2 You asked me if I wanted to run, but I said no and walked on. I was nineteen, and you were seven. The Magic of Numbers—3 Yes, but does X really like us? We were both twenty-seven. The Magic of Numbers—4 You look like Jerry Lewis (1950). The Magic of Numbers—5 Grandfather and grandmother want you to go over to their house for dinner. They were sixty-nine, and I was two and a half. The Magic of Numbers—6 One day when I was twenty-nine years old I met you and nothing happened. The Magic of Numbers—7 No, of course it wasn’t I who came to the library! Brown eyes, flushed cheeks, brown hair. I was twenty-nine, and you were sixteen. The Magic of Numbers—8 After we made love one night in Rockport I went outside and kissed the road I felt so carried away. I was twenty-three, and you were nineteen. The Magic of Numbers—9 I was twenty-nine, and so were you. We had a very passionate time. Everything I read turned into a story about you and me, and everything I did was turned into a poem.