Change Purse

Perhaps one day
These words of mine
Rattling around in my chest
Like cosmic dice

Will roll your way
Give you the courage
To take a gamble on the universe

Will inspire you to write
A lament on how you
Bet the farm
And lost

But how words were still there
A bottomless
Change purse
Of quarters

And how people
Kept appearing
Like slot machines
In your path

A lottery of winning
And losing
And winning again