Choosing Up for Dreams
Imagine ten kids
who, instead of choosing
for softball or hoops,
put their fingers out
for dreams
one gets boat
owner and swimming
coach
with small town
bungalow
another gets stockbroker
with wrap around window
condo
another gets electronic
engineer with house
in quiet boring suburb
yet another gets prison
for thirty years
after killing her abuser
and you wish that they
could choose again
just to see if they'd get
something better
but by then the fingers
are clenched in again
and the world sails along
until someone wishes it flat
and dreams squish
pancake style
along with doubts
and possibles
and someone
we can't imagine yet
crows in flat language
"I told you so."
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