Perhaps

 

Perhaps I could have discovered

a vaccine which saved humanity

from certain doom. Poor souls

would have found another way

to die.

Perhaps I could have uncovered

the 119^th element, adding to the

Periodic Table, and have had a

Nobel Prize awarded to me.

(Could have used the noteriety

and cash.)

Perhaps I could have broken the

Major League Home Run Record,

and been inducted into the Hall of

Fame beside Hank Aaron. (I never

even made it to the plate.)

Perhaps I could have negotiated

a lasting peace in the Middle East

where the Palestinians and Israelis

joined hand-in-hand in the Brother-

hood of Man. (Fat chance of that

happening.)

And perhaps I could have raised the

Minimum Wage to $35 an hour and

eliminated poverty for the working

woman and man. (Yeah right.)

Could have perhaps waved my hand over

despots like Trump, Putin, Jong-un and

Erdoğan, liberating the masses from the

idiotic dictatorial asses. (Shoulda, coulda,

woulda. There would have been another

authoritarian to take their place.)

I can think of a world of things I could

have done with all the passing hours in my

life, but I chose to draw, paint, read, write,

sleep, bitch and gripe. (Fame isn’t all it’s

cracked up to be.)

I did, however, vote against Trump and all

my State’s down-ballot Republicans this

election year. We’ll see how that turns out.

(This “Could Have” will hopefully be my

best move to change history.)

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Chris Hanch 10-31-2020