no turning back at 30

Slim pickings these days at Cosmic Rapture. For want of anything more exciting to post, here's a piece of doggerel I wrote today for a friend on the occasion of his thirtieth birthday:

three times ten and ten times three
reach their mutual destination
together they respect the law
of arithmetical association

it doesn't matter which goes first
or left or right or fast or slow
there's no way that's best or worst
to reach the big three O

ten times three and three times ten
fruitfully they multiply
addition helps them grow, but then
subtraction makes them cry

no tears or fears for you, my boy!
please have a drink on me
this is your day of love and joy
your day of ten times three!

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