Saturday, April 27, 2024

old people gambling

my father's addiction
to buying
lottery tickets
from the vending machine
at Kroger's
has finally ended.
his macular degeneraton
has made
him unable to read
the numbers anymore
on his daily purchase
of ten twenty-dollar tickets.
he doesn't trust anyone
else to read them 
to him,
but suddenly
after a few months or so,
he has five thousand
dollars in the bank
that wasn't there before.

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