Lottery Win

11. Aug 10, 2021

Just like my mother for many years

I have allowed myself to daydream

About the glory and happiness of a lottery win

(Though for her it was the Football Pools.)

Should I do it? Does it calm my fears

Of being poor so I

Can concentrate on other things?

Or is it a trap, something that will keep me stuck?

A form of mental masturbation

(though there’s nothing wrong with wanking.)

I don’t know. It may be harmless or a sin.

The fantasy of fools

Imagining an orgy of things,

An excuse for procrastination

Instead of finding a way of thanking

The Universe for my great life now.

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This hoped-for wealth has been a running theme

Throughout my life, with all my fears

And all my faults dropped in the bin

Of history. Is it against the rules?

I wish I could give a flying fart

For anything else in my great life now.

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