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 Contemporary poetry by Dan Donlan

YOU GOTTA LOVE THE SYSTEM


In Washington State bracket betting
in office pools is illegal
Bet in an office pool you take
A chance of being arrested
But every grocery store sells lottery tickets
There's an Indian Casino every ten miles or so
The lottery pays one winner every few months or so
The rest of us blindly dump money into a scam
and the state who runs the things say
We are going broke buy more lottery tickets fools
You might as well hand your money at the door
of the Indian casinos the machines are stacked
No one there likes a winner and they don't
pay any taxes build roads or is the pretty
lady rolling dice any where's in the building
The losers are retired elderly spending life savings
and Social Security--The office pool has a winner
every time and the game cannot be fixed. You gotta
love the system that allows gambling only in fixed games!
The same cats who make the rules control the banking system








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