About Luck

Let's talk about luck
for a second;
if you and me
were to cut a deck,
high card wins,
I'd get a ten:
the highest of all the numbers.
That would leave me with nothing
to worry about but royalty . . .
oh yea, and the ace of spades.

       published in For the Love of Death: the early years, 2nd, ed., S.I.N., 1993.