Bob Lucky

Accounting

I have this theory that if I can remember every pet I had as a child it proves I have a good memory, and hopefully, a good memory leads to a long life. There’s an obvious flaw in the theory: any list of all the pets I can remember will be complete by definition because there’s no accounting for the pets I can’t remember. For example, there’s the dog I never had that’s impossible to remember or forget.

having some beers
 on the balcony…
 am I
 whistling to passing strays
 or whistling at them

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About the Author

Bob Lucky is the author most recently of My Thology: Not Always True But Always Truth (Cyberwit, 2019) and the chapbook Conversation Starters in a Language No One Speaks (SurVision Books, 2018), which was a winner of the James Tate Poetry Prize in 2018. Lucky lives in Portugal, where he is working his way through all the regional cheeses and wines.