no longer see clearly he stopped
buying
lottery tickets.
he trusted no one
to read him off the numbers,
not even his
prospective new wife.
he'd been playing
his whole life,
won a few bucks here and there.
and lost
nearly everything,
his check book
pathetically near
zero.
what he wouldn't do
for one more
twenty-dollar bill to slide
into the slot,
one last change at being
a hero, but incognito
of course.
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