On My Fiftieth Of The 449th Poem by RIC BASTASA

it is on this day that i begin to count
fifty days of my Pentecost feast,
i have arrived at the significant
30 plus 20, and did not God promised
Abraham that if there are fifty righteous
people in Sodom and Gomorrah
he would refrain from destroying
the twins?



The unmarried man who will have sex
with a virgin has to pay 50 shekels of silver
and he has to marry her and never divorce
her.

this is the symbol of my deliverance
50

there shall since then be no burden.