asked me a question.
How do you know
when you’ve won?
***
If you are still friends with
with best strangers met decades
ago
and they know you
and they still like you,
you may be okay.
Or
you haven’t met
all that many stranger strangers.
***
If you are married happily
to the best person you have ever met
and you don’t say that
cause you love her
you say that because it’s true
and that’s why you love her.
Count yourself a winner.
***
If you still got all
your marbles, like today
when you wondered
why Medicare wouldn’t pay for your golden finches?
And your running shoes
Cost about the same of your first car.
***
Sharp.
Like a tack.
Winning!!
Of course, there’s always, you know,
HIM.
The last thing you do, don’t look back.