mary gilbert

POETRY -

I have not been one to enter contests at all...and there is a reason for this. I have bought lottery tickets for a number of years and i have not won at all. I am too realistic to think i would win the jackpot which is what draws in the lottery participants to buy multiple tickets to be 'in it to win it'...so I just buy the one ticket and rationalize "if I am to win, then the one ticket is more than enough"...and every week at the friendly corner lottery kiosk old Zack checks my ticket against the winning number results and tells me, “sorry Mary you are not a winner this week", and with that i say "oh Zack...just tell me I am a loser". We both laugh at my joke but I can tell that the joke is getting old, and sweet old Zack is kind, and I move on thinking well, maybe next week and life goes on.