Bob Lucky

Life’s Mysteries

My friend checks into a hospice so I go to say goodbye. He’s in bed, a remote on his chest.

“How are you doing?”

“No porn on the TV,” he croaks.

“Does it matter? You know what happens. A half-naked woman is in the kitchen staring at a plumber’s butt crack and feeling herself up. Before long one of them makes a joke about a plumber’s tool and then, well….

“Does the sink get fixed?

“Eventually.”

“Thanks.” He closes his eyes and is quiet for a long time.

open casket
the comb-over
he never had in life

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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.