I’M GOING TO WIN IT, I don’t need to buy a ticket

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If I thought I could fly

you would have strapped me down

until I thought I was buried

pulsed electricity through my ears

or fed me a zillion watch batteries.

Would time make sense then?

Would I be stable yet?

 

Instead

I want to save the world

but really who doesn’t?

or move to Chicago, which isn’t all that shocking

or Montreal

which isn’t either

or forget that there’s a day after this one

a convenient contrivance I suspect most rely on from time to time

 

but there’s a multimillion dollar lottery drawing tonight

and

I’M GOING TO WIN IT

don’t need to buy a ticket

 

Only superheros can have jellybeans for dinner.

I’ve eaten jellybeans every night.

 

It’s all very Candid Camera when you

don’t win

don’t fly

spin out

CRASH!!!

into a Looney Toons painted tunnel

 

It’s a relief to be so far away.

 

Watch yourself hit the snooze button.

Watch yourself shower.

Watch yourself pour coffee into your computer mug.

Watch yourself drive to work.

Watch yourself be late.

Watch yourself not care.

Watch yourself explain the virtues of a product to a customer with

Great Conviction.

Watch yourself drive home.

Watch yourself watch TV.

Watch yourself feel dead.

Watch yourself cry.

Watch yourself sleep without dreaming.

 

Probably not a good idea to make it look so easy.