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No Sure Thing

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e94HWJFG9Y Here's a link to my YouTube channel, where I read from my latest books: Seedy Town Blues Collected Poems, It's Just a Hop, Skip, and a Jump to the Madhouse, and Sleep Always Calls. They are available on Amazon. The latest video on my channel is an interview I did with the Order of the Pen Magazine.

It was a four-horse race at
Santa Anita.
I was with my old man and
little brother.
I put everything I had on
the number 3 horse to show.
His name was Dusty’s Diaper.
Shoemaker was aboard;
the shoe, for God’s sake.
It was a sure thing.
All he had to do was not
come in fourth place.

I learned that day,
in a horse race,
that anything can happen.
I was 12 years old.
And like horse racing,
In life, anything can
happen.

Amidst the California evening,
On our way to the car,
I thought my Dad
would live forever.

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    1. Hello Thomas. Your writing pulls me in every time. As though I’m standing right by you, living through what you wrote. Marvelous description, memorable write.

    2. First you took us to a memory. Then that last line. And that is the reason the memory matters. Beautiful. I knew mine wouldn’t live long, still hurts he’s gone

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