luck like that

I take all
the lucky pennies
in the penny jar
to the bank.
I say lucky
but don't mean it.
I let them slide
into the slots
where they make noise
like a one armed
bandit
coughing up three
cherries
worth of winners.
but it's just pennies,
brown round metal
stones,
all adding up
to a 12 dollars and
seventy two cents.
I let them go.
I don't need luck like
that anymore.