icecream cone

you buy a hundred
dollars worth
of lottery tickets.
and when the numbers
are drawn you have
exactly no numbers
that match. not a
single one. it's
reverse luck of
some sort. so you
abandoned all of
your ideas of how
to spend your money.
the houses, the cars,
the trips, the fun
things you would do.
not to mention
the philanthropic
endeavors as well.
but you haven't won.
so there it is.
instead you go and
buy a double scoop
of icecream and lick
it slowly as the sun
sets just as slow
beyond the man
made lake below
the condos.