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Devotion

There’s something touching
about an unemployed man
on plastic chair outside
a tobacco shop dolefully
scratching numbers on a card,
knowing he has a better
chance of being chosen
Pope or blessed by lightning
than winning a jackpot.
His woman lights two cigarettes
and places one in his mouth.
She’s there for him
as he pursues their numbers.

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