Wheel of Fortune || Gabriel Maybank

LUCK is a four letter curse word

spoken by those wishing for better things to come,

like a billion dollar lottery ticket that never came.

Who won by the way?

A man lucked up with a few million down the street from my house.

Left his kids and wife and overdosed on drugs a few days later.

At least his few dollars went into the pre-k program.

So, LUCKILY, he made a little contribution before passing.

I don't believe in LUCK, once whispered in my ear

by an ultra green leprechaun on Saint Patty's Day.

He lost all consciousness in an alley-way dice game to a beginner the day before.

Lost his green shirt too!

Beginners LUCK!

My LUCK ran off with hope and the spinning wheel of fortune

quite possibly the day I arrived here because we never met.

Like the LUCKY child born without a father to beat him into submission

and follow all the ways of the yellow brick road.

Never finding a rainbow or a pot of gold, but LUCKY

to find himself amiss this colorful paradise.