Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Great Regulars: I'd guess you've heard it said

that the reason we laugh when somebody slips on a banana peel is that we're happy that it didn't happen to us. That kind of happiness may be shameful, but many of us have known it. In the following poem, the California poet, Jackson Wheeler, tells us of a similar experience.

How Good Fortune Surprises Us

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 144

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