Quinze

1. before 16 but after 14 2. 15 cents is not enough to get a gumball in a 25 cent gumball machine, nor is it the way to pronounce correctly the name of famous rapper “50 cent” 3. in reference to a 15 year old hispanic girl’s birthday or Fiesta de Quinceañera 4. congrats, you are old enough to have sex in denmark & sweden 5. a crystal anniversary for the rare circumstance that the institution of marriage has worked (or at least each individual has not been caught cheating yet) 6. in the english language, it is the smallest number to have 7 letters in its name when spelled out f-i-f-t-e-e-n 7. 15 mph is the average speed that a penguin swims (when not angry or horny, you know how those penguins can get) 8. “the devil’s card” in a tarot deck (and if you don’t believe in the devil, as i, well then, for the both of us it is just the 15th card) 9. the amount of men on a dead man’s chest as found in a lyric of a sea shanty in robert louis stevenson’s novel, Treasure Island 10. the amount of fingers that Li Jinpeng had been born with, prior to his operation at age 6, which removed 5 of the 15 in late may of 2010 11. 1 ton of number 9 coal less than Tennessee Ernie Ford loaded in his song “sixteen tons,” still owing his “soul” to the company store 12. if you caught the one-armed-man & you are both standing alone in an elevator on the way up to book him, this is the number of fingers between the two of you 13. the minimum time a human head stays conscious after being decapitated (15 seconds)---time enough to shout curse your body for letting your head pop off so quick 14. the longest word without repeating a letter contains this amount of letters (english) 15. the amount of seconds it took you to skim this list quickly, decide that it’s not poetry & get just a teeny-tiny itty-bitty pissed that the actual word wasn’t referenced in number 14