a threefold cord is not quickly broken
so a braid does not fail
then three friends become
the cumbersome ratio two-to-one
love factoring favoritism
a tip of the scale of the universe,
but the rule of threes works:
in fairy tales, chairs, jokes, wishes, epic books
for counting to start and making mistakes
for achieving the “charm” and winning a race
for religion, math, color, life by the phase
the format of our names
countdown to games
in the firmest structures
in the meals of the day
it is for the nuclear family, for generations and so
on and on and on.
it is for patterns
oddly, primely, magic and
1-2-3, gone
