MacKenzie Powerball Fortune - My Misfortune (not!)

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Open Poetry #48

MacKenzie Powerball Fortune - My Misfortune (not!)

katahdin
Senior Member

since 2010-07-01

Posts 1196
ME. In the Shadow of the Mt.

0 posted 2013-06-09 03:27 AM

Ok! Ok! I have to get this off my chest
To put the truth to rest
The phone calls have to stop
I fear my heads is going to pop!

Some how I knew, I told my son
Then CBS called, said Gloria had won!
Gloria MacKenzie won the Florida Powerball
The biggest jackpot of them all!

The news was all over the TV
And reporters wanted info from me
But I said I knew nothing
And I wouldn't say anything

I was thrilled for the family
And for 21 years I was a MacKenzie
Until my divorce 6 years ago
But I can't go back ya-know

The MacKenzie Powerball fortune
You might think is my misfortune
But I can't look at it that way
I'm blessed, I say

For me, I have no money to flaunt
But my children and grandchildren will never want
That's all a mother could ask for you see
And in the end they'll take care of me

*** Gloria MacKenzie was my mother in-law

[This message has been edited by katahdin (06-09-2013 08:39 PM).]

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2013-06-09 04:50 AM

Wow, dear Kat, this fortunate event made your pen skip in pleasure. Your attitude is the right one. It's no good to envy somebody for their good luck. If you are happy for them the happiness will affect you too.

Very vivid and well done.

Margherita

"Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love."
(Rumi)

katahdin
Senior Member

since 2010-07-01

Posts 1196
ME. In the Shadow of the Mt.

2 posted 2013-06-09 05:05 AM

Thanks Marg! My kids have been struggling ( who isn't now a day!) and I've been helping them as much as I could, but now I will not have to worry about them so much.
Kat >^..^<

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

3 posted 2013-06-09 07:14 AM

WoW! Double WoW! Damn. That's all I can get out.

~*~ What does a clock do when it's hungry? It goes back four seconds. ~*~

katahdin
Senior Member

since 2010-07-01

Posts 1196
ME. In the Shadow of the Mt.

4 posted 2013-06-09 08:41 PM

Thanks JP, WOW was all I could say too!
Kat >^,,^<

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

5 posted 2013-06-10 06:55 PM

It good when life blesses us...James

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