If I were luckier than I have been
(Which is already lucky, I should say)
I have a premonition I would win
The lottery, and play it every day.
If I were fortunate (and so I am)
In ways exceeding what's already true
The government would think my luck a sham
Investigating everything I'd do.
So it is lucky, in an inverse sense,
That I do not possess eternal luck;
For in this world the only recompense
Of high good fortune is that fortunes suck:
We do not trust a good thing coming often
It's only for the outliers we soften.
