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What Luck

from Familiar Failure by Conductors

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How can there be
one little word
for luck?
How is it
understood?

Does it make
sense to ask
if it exists?
Can one
discover that?

Is it an absence?
Does it explain
everything
that cannot
be explained?

Is fate so much different?
Is there a purpose
behind luck?
Is it
unintentional?

How can there be
one little word
for luck?
How is it
understood?

When people say
"by any chance,”
“for whatever reason"
they never
think too much.

Still under scrutiny
events can seem
beneficial
and
incalculable.

And sometimes it’s humbling
just to say,
"that was not me,
o that was
only luck."

How can there be
one little word
for luck?
How is it
understood?

Bad luck makes people kill themselves,
but good luck makes them want to live.
People say, “we’re lucky to be alive.”
Among the flowers and all the bee hives.
And in the sunset, you’re sure they’re right.
But if you’re stung, you may change your mind.
Was it a lucky bee? An unlucky bee?
How much control
does it have over you and me?

How can there be
one little word
for luck?
How is it
understood?

Maybe it cannot
be talked about -
it’s only felt
and can’t be
analyzed.

But that seems suspicious -
it came from somewhere.
Did it explain
first the good
or the bad?

Does it take
a charm to be charming?
How much chance
is out there
in the world?

I only know
there’s one little word
for luck
and it seems
understood.

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from Familiar Failure, released April 1, 2015

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Conductors Chicago, Illinois

"Mona tried to tell me
To stay away from the train line
She said that all the railroad men
Just drink up your blood like wine
An’ I said, 'Oh, I didn’t know that
But then again, there’s only one I’ve met
An’ he just smoked my eyelids
An’ punched my cigarette' "
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