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POEM: I mean come on

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I mean come on

no
seriously
how many more of these
could there possibly be
did I anger some pantheon of gods
of whom I was not previously aware
the first one was fine
understandable
there’s always going to be one
even just looking at it
from the point of view of numbers
stats, I mean
but then there was another
and that was a little more frustrating
and then a third
which is when I started to think
perhaps I was wrong about this whole
non-theist thing
though this feels more like the work of Loki
than some Old Testament Jehovah
actually, that’s not true
he was a trickster, too
it’s getting so predictable
I was barely even surprised
when the fourth one hove into view
a few weeks back
at this point I’ve just about given up
any day without one
is just a day of reprieve
not a sign that the cycle is broken
maybe I’ll take up golf

4 March 2013
Auburn, AL

Published in Auburn My poems Poem-A-Day 2013 Poetry

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