Cities of the dead

by Michael D Nalley

As the old lady walked through the city of the dead,
she held the magic Mojo tightly, close to her head;
then she just wandered by the large Lovell tomb,
her mind was on a curse of destruction and doom.

She was jilted by the commander of Apollo thirteen
which bewitched her to revenge with thoughts obscene.
Her mission was to bring evil to the shot at the moon
and this lunatic would burn the damned doll very soon.

Before he reached the shadow of the moon, there is no dispute
that his ship would mysteriously explode some where on route.
The curse can only cast its shadow on this lowly spinning earth,
a bird soaring peacefully in the sky is an omen of rebirth.

When a soul feels mighty restless with a wish to roam,
the wisdom of the spirit tends to call it back home.
Though superstition may fill the foolish mind with dread,
we only remember the vessel in the cities of the dead

Yet it is not fiction that A radio transmission from Lovell on april 13 1970 during the mission, "Houston, we've had a problem" spawned the misquoted phrase in popular culture, "Houston, we have a problem".
In 1970 Valentines day followed a friday the thirteenth
The earliest known documented reference in English occurs in an 1869 biography of Gioachino Rossini:
[Rossini] was surrounded to the last by admiring and affectionate friends; and if it be true that, like so many other Italians, he regarded Friday as an unlucky day, and thirteen as an unlucky number, it is remarkable that on Friday, the 13th of November, he died.
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By Tariq Malik
Senior Editor
posted: 13 February 2009
8:49 pm ET
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction