Conspiracy of Numbers

5842 is the exact
license plate number
of the white van
stopped in the park.

What, you say,
are the chances
of that?

If you were foretold
that you will see
a sphenic number today,
and that it will be precisely
one short of a prime,
would you have believed it?

Yet here we are,
looking at 5842.

Can you believe it?