the rabbit's foot

I used to have a rabbit's
foot attached to my one single
key. the foot was soft and white,
with a brown circle
of fluffy hair down the side.
on occasion I
would rub it for luck
when playing marbles,
or cards, or rolling dice
in the alley
with bedeviled kids.
but then I thought,
how lucky can this foot be?
what luck was it for
the rabbit to have one?
I put it in the circle
and lost it to
a freckled face kid
named Peter Ornstein.