Winning Ticket?

Walking to the car this morning and my stomach gives a weird butterfly volt. I always associate it with good things. There is a bad ominous feeling I occasionally get but that has no bearing here.

I hope into the car and leave for work. As I pull into the gas station so I can turn to go to work my lottery tickets come fluttering down from the sun visor. I have kept many a ticket up there and it has never fallen before.

I arrived to work either early and set off a few good mornings and to K my boss aside see you at 2. Today is Tuesday. She closes.

Note the date on top of the ticket. Note I sent K a text entering to her close. Knowing it is Tuesday.

I stop at the lotto machine and check it. After flashing for in inordinately long time(to me) it read Please Try Later. Now I am getting excited. I go around and put my ticket down. With great dramatics I tell my story and end with:

I want you to check my ticket!

Very Emperioulous if I do say so myself.

Only to have the CS person say to me:

Jay the ticket is for tonight.

🤣🤣🤣😅

Oct. 3/22

Word of the Day Challenge #56-Untitled Poem

Bruised
battered
staggering to my feet
the punches
they keep on coming
will they ever stop?
Haggard
face pinched
hair a tangled mess
eyes
blackened with lack of sleep
afraid of the dragons
nibbling at my mind
at my soul
nightmares ridden solely for my terror.
Black hole opening
stark nothingness
standing a the edge
staring down
stomach in a lurch.
I don’t want to jump.
I don’t want to die.
Drooling fiends at my back
edging closer
yipping
with carnivorous desire.
Certain
I will succumb
I will remain defeated
feast upon befouled emotions
gorging until satiated.
Deflated
I stumble backwards
lip crumbling beneath my feet…..
free falling
soaring through the air
caught within the current
buffeted
side to side
close my eyes
waiting for…..
gentle bump
set to my feet
open my eyes to….
golden sunrise
beauty in the sky
today I am the winner
today I am alive.
©Sept. 1/19
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