Monday, March 5, 2018

Topic: Luck

Thom Dunn

      Lady Luck, once the Goddess Fortuna, has appealed to many
through Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, though many thrilling to Fortuna
Imperatrix Mundi do not all realize that the God of All had once
allowed the Roman Goddess Fortuna to rule over our Earthly habitat. A
kind of compromise: with the swerve to unbelief she had remained to
become Vegas-style roulette wheels to the Wheel of Fortune.  He
thought of this, popping the last of his four ant-cancer capsules this
evening. He admitted to himself that though he could no longer believe
in an omniscient, omnipotent God he had many time prayed to him.
Sometimes out of desperation. Sometimes just for Luck.

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