13

We were 13 kids at the block and we are still best friends, I've got 13 buttons on my lucky jacket, which helped me go through college without even a makeup test, on the 13^th is the day I met him, she was born on the 13^th, the 13^th job fulfilled me professionally, we've been married for 13 years and we still love each other like on the first day, today is the 13^th, the day the surgery is scheduled, seven people, including me, in the O.R., fuck, 13, 12, 11, 10, niiiiineeeeee, 13 angels are waiting for me at the end of the road.

(Translated by Iulia-Teodora Urea / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)