'Chances Are' - a Poem - Freewrite #12

"Don't forget,
you could be laughing
65% more of the time."_{John Grant}

you could be ten percent
more sure
that ninety is enough
to know enough,

you could be twenty-five
or fifty

of a whole
at either age,
suppose the rest is later.

you could mow the lawn
at thirty three

point three percent
the speed you do,
then sit there wondering
where the afternoon
has got to.

you could make up less
than one
in every hundred anecdotes
or people;

I could be the other
ninety-nine
or none.

so much of us - so many.

we could both obsess
far less
for numbers.

@lazarus-wist_{My twelfth entry to the daily freewrite project kindly hosted by @mariannewest,
with the prompt, "40 % off".
Inspired by a post of @wordymouth's from yesterday, but also my friend in music,
the incredible John Grant.}

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