12gauge.com 2002

Superstition

they say
if you say
Bloody Mary
seven times
on the seventh stroke
of midnight
in a pitch-black
bathroom with
no air circulation
then hold your breath
for seven times seven minutes times seventeen the
mirror will crack
blood will spurt out
and then you will die.

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