Thirteen Things that Frighten Me

1. The morning
2. Getting up in the morning
3. Watching people vote
4. Two women talking
5. Two men talking
6. A man and a woman talking
7. No one talking but the blinking light on
my message machine saying someone did
8. The criminal
9. The policeman
10. Closet heterosexuals
11. People who liked the movie “The Exorcist”
but didn’t like “Bambi”
12. People wearing T-Shirts and bumper stickers
that say, “No Fear”
13. The number thirteen