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Optimism
I
woke up
feeling
nuttier
than
a Mormon.
I
figured I could take a second wife.
I
could turn the two of them out
as
a tag team
on
the mud wrestling circuit.
I
could make a million bucks
and
retire to Boca Raton
with
my girlfriend.
I
could spend
the
rest of eternity
on
a nude beach,
tossing
bright red chunks
of
the loser I used to be
to
the screaming white gulls
of
deep blue heaven.
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