Sixes and Sevens

photo: quickmeme.com (Hi, Baha'i Brother, Dwight)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sixes_and_sevens


Sixes and Sevens ~ (a lesson learned from my Mother)

The Feast of Corpus Christie
An ancient dispute over precedence
To Feast or not to Feast, and when?
Companies fighting over power and wealth
First in sixth
or Second in seventh (of Twelve)
No one wants to end up in second place
Merchant Taylor nor Skinner Livery
Lord Mayer by special delivery ended the race
Settled it once and for all
(Trade off - and Feast in each other’s Hall)
It paid off - still practiced today
Proving trade-offs pay
It took a century or more - this duel to Feast First
But worse –
The Companies were destroyed in The War (not in the First)
Second, of course
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To be at Sixes and Sevens
Or “to set on sinc or six”
(A French idiom)
for a way of being fixed,
in state of confusion or ‘disarray’
Playing “Grand Hazard” – ly
Rolling Dice in a game of strategy
Kinda like playing Craps today
Someone’s gotta pay
Risking one’s life on Sixes and Sevens
Numbers found in the riddle of Life ~
solving strife in the middle
Better to not align yourself with one side / or the other
Or get fixated on games of power and wealth
A lesson I learned by myself
in an expression I heard from my Mother
in a Crap Game I try to resist
Being set on cinq or six

LDN