Thursday, January 25, 2018

the insurance claims

he had some bad luck.
his house
burned down.
the fire starting suspiciously
close
to his new baby grand
piano,
which he didn't know how
to play
to begin with,
then his boat sank.
then another sank,
both mysteriously while
no one was aboard.
a car would disappear.
there were break ins,
accidents when he slipped
on a puddle
going down an aisle
in a large chain store.
but he was always tanned
and smiling.
the happiest unfortunate
man
i'd ever known.

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