918

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Written by Catherin J Pascal Dunk

918 is my favourite number,
should anybody ask;

918
with all its roundness.

A clock reading 9.18 is
a satisfying sight.

*

918 first came to my attention
in 1989 when

I worked as a check-
out chick for Coles.

918,
the code for Dairy.1

*

I gave birth once
at 9.17pm.

I asked my midwife
(time is relative)

to please fudge it but
she wouldn’t.

Poetics: 1,2,3…Go!
  1. Occasionally we needed to enter a price manually rather than scan the barcode, and to do this, we had to enter a department code first. 918 was the code for the dairy department. ↩︎

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