#544 - what are the odds?

 

29.vi.21

544

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what are the odds?

(draft Hanrahan)              

 

calls for a direct answer

 

odds are

cancer, house blows down

come to a grisly end

 

jungle up around our ears

we called a garden once

 

odds are

another invasion, a coup

get over this

no one remembers

 

odds are

the calculations are out

 

we never knew what was in that black box

 

odds are

someone else wins the lottery

 

we all lose count somewhere round here

 

what are the odds a religion is true?

odds are

this sun has many more rises

there are many more worlds just like this

 

odds are no afterlife

and anyway couldn’t take it with you if

 

odds are

more famine plague pestilence

another pandemic

haven’t we been before?

 

odds are words fail you

brink will teeter

the weather gets in

 

ants take all of it away

 

odds are

ecliptic flow

 

brimstone!

what’s in the bottle’s to drink

 

I bring off the long rhyme here

odds are not making it into the book

no one will ever read this

 

chances are wailing and gnashing of tethe

 

your smile revives me

get a grip

go on

 

though accidents will get the better

by then we won’t have bucket to kick

it’s not the last hurrah

not here

 

odds are we’ll get by