Just Lucky, I' Say

I have gone more than sixty-eight years with-

out contracting some disease which would

have done me in sooner.

Cars and bullets by the millions have whizzed

by me, and thus far I remain unscathed by the

frenzied malaise.

I happen to live in an epoch somewhere in the

safety zone between world-wide extinctions of

species—

No obliterating coronal mass ejection or mega-

asteroidean impact interrupting my stay which

could have certainly ruined everyone’s day.

I’ve managed to miss several life-extinguishing

tsunamis by virtue of my choice of residency half

a world away.

And should Dirty Harry chance to ask me, if I am

feeling lucky today? I’d have to look around with

a wide old grin and say--Well, this far into it, any-

way, as I see it, things aren’t looking too damned

bad.

Chris Hanch 9-3-15